*chuckles* I am not the one complaining here, and blaming my tax rate on those who are on welfare, now am I? I am not the one complaining about working 60hrs and paying 50% on taxes, am I?
Actually the list I linked earlier also agrees, the rich used to pay an even higher portion of the taxes. It was Reagan who started letting them off the "tax" hook. That was 40 years ago,no wonder you don't wish to look back more than 20 years.
Because it’s 2023 and because the data released by the IRS and analyzed by the Tax Foundation compared 2020 to 2021. If you’re up for tracing the history of tax receipts by income bracket and tax payments as a percentage of taxable income further back, that would be awesome. Especially if you can go all the way back to the passage of the 16th amendment last century.
my point is - that you are complaining that there is inequities in the system. Its no less of a complaint then mine - if your - or anyones answer is if you dont like it go make your own country -(which is a completely nonsensical and inane answer in and of itself) then the same answer should apply to all complaints in the thread.
Did you look at my link, no I thought not....*chuckles*
I am not complaining, you are.
also not true - there are several countries in the world that have no tax.
Income tax, yes.
I never said they didn't. What I said was "taxation".
Beats your" I hate paying taxes, and I hate supporting those who don't work who are on welfare" even if you can't list the percentage"
I'm not shooting down the debate, you are the one who mentioned the rich would leave first. I am just following your lead.
What i said - if you read my post is that the rich have options. They can leave - and have done.
So you can say the rich have left, but I am not allowed to say you can leave? Really, what fantasy land do you live in?
Let us not forget how we got to this point, it is due to those lines in bold, above!
More of your bitching about paying too much tax above. Yet you argue against raising the tax on the top 1%. Why, because they might move to Monaco? If they are Uber rich, trust me, they already have a place there.
I dont live in a fantasy land - apparently you do - I'm not rich - I can't afford to move to monaco.
You say I'm living in a fantasy land after telling me to go and make my own country?
You keep circling back to the above. It's not true. But you keep believing it, I'd have better luck getting a tree to understand than you.
Yes, that is painfully obvious.
Yet you can't back it up with evidence. Just your feelings.
More of the "I know there are bunch of people who choose not to work" yet when asked for the proof, you can't even show any evidence. Just your feelings.
So 5 out of 1.5 million. Scamming 240,000.00 pounds out of 3.4% of GDP. That is your complaint??? Wow that is going to break the bank!!
Those were examples, or did you expect me to show you every single person scamming the system in the UK?
No I haven’t sifted through it. If you care to dig into it and provide an apples to apples comparison to the 2020 numbers that would be interesting. In other words, what % of tax revenue did the top 1% pay in the 1950s, 60s and 70s and how does it compare to the 42.3% the top 1% paid in 2020. Along those same lines, what % of their income did the top 1% pay as a group back in the last century?
You should shift through it, since it shows the tax rates broken down by bracket. The proof is, prior to Reagan the rich did pay their fair share, and maybe more!
Yes, that is exactly what I expect. The percentage of fraud in the system. That is a fact, and if you think the Government doesn't have an idea, you are even more poorly informed than I suspect. Otherwise it is just your feelings that you are presenting as "fact".
If the marginal tax rate is 90% but nobody in that bracket actually pays that rate it means nothing. What matters most is how much tax revenue high income earners actually pay.
Sliding scale? That would work
The marginal rates are listed in my link, why not just go look, and educate yourself.
Nor did I ever EVER claim that it did - I simply said i resented that my tax pounds were going to fraudsters.
If the totality of fraud added two cents to your income tax, I'd be surprised.
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