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Originally Posted by tater
Tax has not been shifted to the "working class" or "middle class." The middle class is the middle quintile of taxpayers, and they pay squat. I suppose if you count union "working class" people who make absurdly high salaries, then yeah (like the toll booth worker in NJ who pulls down over 300 grand a year http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/traffic/t...s-20101019-apx ). Otherwise, those groups effectively pay no income taxes, and certainly no where near a "fair share" (a "fair share" is the per capita cost of government, so a worker in a family of 4 needs to pay 4 shares to be even pulling his weight (roughly 50 grand per year these days for a family of 4)). |
The upper class pays the more and more in taxes not because of any sort of "soak the rich" policy - top marginal tax rates have decreased over the years - but because of the simple fact that their earnings have increased exponentially over the years which everyone else's have languished. To say that the middle class needs to pay more, while the rich get richer and then get tax breaks on top of that - well I give a big middle finger to that policy.