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Article #6Re: What America Owes its 'Illegals'
From: tonyp
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:44
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:44
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"Brian" <drmorrisnospam@comcast.net> wrote > How do you figure that? > > The wealthy don't have more children than the poor and often > send them to private schools. That's half of the budget of > most communities. > > The bottom 50% pay 5% of federal income tax. > > The benefits of Social Security are weighted toward the lower income. > Someone earning $80,000 doesn't draw 4 times what someone > making $20,000 does even though they pay 4 times as much > into the system. "Into the system", Brian says. That's an important conception: if you're a taxpayer, all the different federal taxes you pay come out of the same pocket; if you're the federal government, all your tax receipts go into the same pot. Now, Brian trots out the tired old class-warfare talking point that the bottom 50% of incomes pay only 5% of all federal _income_ tax, but he carefully avoids mentioning two things: 1) What percentage of all _income_ the bottom 50% earn. After all, if we had a dead flat tax structure, and the bottom half of all incomes amounted to only 5% of the nation's total income, what fraction of all "income tax" would he _expect_ the bottom half to pay? 2) Bill Gates pays a negligible percentage of his income in FICA. Not so for most people, including Brian I bet. The fraction of _total_ federal taxes paid by the lower half of incomes is therefore not necessarily the same as the fraction of "income tax" they pay. -- TP
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