Quote Originally Posted by blaknoize View Post
Well the income tax takes money from those who "earned" it. Even though its Unconstitutional. Also, how is it that a big "earner" can be more resistant to paying their affordable dues to the country than a person who makes less which creates more of a burden for them? The person at the bottom is forced to request some assistance from government services, while the person at the top can just pay for it and even waste it.
Why do you quote earned like it's some mythical term and people who are rich just woke up that way one day? As far as paying their affordable dues, the top income earners already pay the majority of the tax burden, but I suppose we should just tax them til they're poor like everyone else, then who will provide you with a job? Also, who cares if the person at the top wants to waste money, that's their right, they earned it and they don't OWE anyone a damn thing.


Read this
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The tax burden for those who make less is just too high, so high in fact that 36% of them pay no federal income tax after all credits and deductions and some actually get more back on a refund than they paid in. When you factor in people who don't make enough to file a tax return that number goes up to 47% who pay no federal income tax. All that is just from a quick google search and based upon 2009 tax figures, I haven't done serious in depth research on the matter.


Here's a very simple redistribution analogy: You are a student who works their ass off and earns the top grades in the class and maintain a perfect A and there is another student who just can't quite cut it and only has a C. The end of the semester the professor comes to you and says, well since you have such a good grade and he has such a poor grade, you can afford to give him some of your points even though you earned them and he didn't. I'm going to redistribute your grades so both of you have a B average. Are you completely ok with giving up something you worked your ass off for so that someone else can have the same thing as you even though they didn't earn it?