The Wardie

ok, your going past the unfairness of fed goverenment, ok. you want to discuss sales tax, property tax etc. Those taxes are not changed by how much you make. Rich people pay the same amount of sales tax as poor. Sales tax is sales tax. Rich buy "more" good, so they tend to pay more tax. The rich have more property, so they pay more then poor, but it's a flat rate? Do you think there should be an adjusted sales and property tax? Are you for elim

This is an interesting post, I don't understand what your really saying though. Over the last 4 years the top wage earners got a the biggest tax cut, yet shoulder more of the tax burden then in anytime in history (which simply means everyone got thier taxes cut). Interestingly, the top 1 percent's share fell to 33.89 percent from 37.42 in 2000, even with the tax rate rising from 27.45 to 27.50. The reason is they made a lot less money then in year be

A great breakdown of just who really pays taxes: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/menu/top_50__of_wage_earners_pay_96_09__of_income_taxes.guest.html Only the "rich" pay taxes...

this scale is broken, I got a 40....there has to be people right of RR. He was a leftest for god sakes...almost a commie!

EMEA, short for Europe- Lets just end off at your military is weak, I will give Canada the symbolic gesture of military support in afgan, what you could bring to Bosnia, and the limited support you could give to Iraq. The good news is, The US will never let anything happen to you, and you guys know that (just like Europe knows it) You think your economy is in good shape? hhmmmm US- GDP- 38k per capita Total GDP- 11

Historyishere, They are on top; they should have to pay the most? How much of their money should they be able to keep? Better yet, why not take it all? Think of all the tax breaks you could give everyone if you just took 100 percent of the richest income, hell, no one else would need to even pay taxes for a year that way. If you think 100 percent to too high...what is the correct percentage you think people who do well for themselves they