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   From: yak@inbox.com   
      
   On 10/1/2024 7:12 PM, Baxter wrote:   
   > Yak  wrote in news:vdhdg2$2r3or$1@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> On 10/1/2024 1:37 PM, citizen winston smith wrote:   
   >>> On 10/1/2024 11:32 AM, Jimmy wrote:   
   >>>>> "Make them pay their fair share!"   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> She's either a stone cold liar or she's stupid and believes you are.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> All business owners pay taxes.  We have to or the IRS comes after   
   > us   
   >>>> first.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It's time to stand up for the billionaires because where else will   
   > all   
   >>>> our   
   >>>> money trickle down from?   
   >>>   
   >>> Giverment, duh.   
   >>>   
   >>> That's what you totalitarian fascists want, isn't it it?   
   >>>   
   >>>> Billionaires need protection, they're too weak to protect themselves.   
   >>>   
   >>> Red herring.   
   >>   
   >> Bottom 50% earned 10.4% of income, paid 2.3% of fed income taxes.   
   >>   
   >> Top 1% earned 26.3% of income, paid 45.8% of fed. income taxes.   
   >>   
   >> Top 1% of income tax payers paid more than the bottom 90% combined.   
   >>   
   >> We know who's really not paying their fair share.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Let's look at a 50% flat tax:   
      
   Let's not.   
      
   >   - the poor might not even have enough to eat, much less a roof over   
   > their head   
   >   - the middle class would have at best an austere lifestyle, eat and   
   > house, nothing else   
   >   - the well-off would be inconvenienced but have a normal life   
   >   - the billionaires would not even notice except on spreadsheet numbers.   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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