Is the United States Crazy?

It is only called regressive because it forces those on the lower side of the income brackets to actually pay for something. I lived in the lower brackets years ago, making less then 50k a year and I always got back huge tax returns, $3,000 plus each year. I now make over 80k a year and I'm lucky if I get back $500 a year.

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It makes a hell of a lot more sense that that piece of garbage that asserts that the rich pay ALL the taxes.

Your article is crapola.

"Many taxes are regressive, meaning they take a larger share of income from poor and middle-income families than they do from the rich."

Acording to your article using simple math and not meaningless statements, people earning 14000 are federally taxed at 6.8%. Those earning 1.5 million are taxed at 24.7%

By the time you factor in their refund and earned income credit, child credits and all the other freebies yes the rich pay ALL the taxes.thank you very much commie liberals and their redistribution plans.

"Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent own more than the rest of us combined?"

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"Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent own more than the rest of us combined?"

That should read..."Do we really want to live in a world where the 1 percent are allowed to own all the money they earn?"

The richest of the richest 1%:

Here's how many dollars you need to join their ranks:

rather than looking at the bigger picture

Really? It has everything to do with what you get back at the end of the year.

We both make 50K a year. I'm single and you are married with kids. Are you really saying that through the year we are paying the same amount in taxes each pay period? If I cheated and claimed 4 dependents, are you saying that at the end of the year that I wouldn't owe money to the IRS?

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Here's how many dollars you need to join their ranks:

No...wrong again, this is how many dollars you need to EARN to join their ranks.

Our tax system is screwed

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rather than looking at the bigger picture

And pray tell what is the big picture frank?

Anyway...you think it is okay if the top 1% owns more than all the rest of us combined.

You wouldn't understand the bigger picture, John. Your masters have clouded your mind.

People like Frank want equal outcomes in the US, not equal opportunity. If I make more then my neighbor, then I must have cheated them or stole from them because I'm doing better.

You will never see someone from the left accept a reason why someone is poor.

It doesn't matter if the mother got pregnant at 16, it's not fair that she has to work a min wage job. Personal responsibility never occures to these people. Someone else always cheated or stole from someone else.

Neither do they realize that a majority of the rich are not from old money. In the last several decades there has been a shift. Less and less of the "old" money is still around. Most of it is new money.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/03/there-are-more-self-made-billionaires-in-the-forbes-400-than-ever-before/

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stanley-millionaire.html

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Anyway...you think it is okay if the top 1% owns more than all the rest of us combined.

I am perfectly ok with anyone keeping what they earned. Applying your logic if I am better looking then the rest (and I am) I should pay for everyone elses cosmetic surgery???

Where do you libs get this **** from? This is still a country where ANYONE can be a millionare...ANYONE.

Give me a reason why you have to be poor? (you still havent answered that) (thought I forgot huh?)

And remember when you wanted examples??? Well this is one of those times. ANSWER THE QUESTION FRANK.

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You wouldn't understand the bigger picture, John. Your masters have clouded your mind.

Talk about typing for the sake of typing and not living up to the standards you impose on others (didnt we just have that discussion...the answer is YES) what a convenient cop-out Frank.