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Apr 15 - Only Little People Pay Taxes


 Apr 15 - Only Little People Pay Taxes


"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes," billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley famously (and allegedly) sniffed. She wasn't entirely correct: The superrich do still pay taxes. The wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers pay 32 percent of all income tax collected by the federal government.

But the superrich don't pay as much as they used to—and thanks to a combination of tax cuts and preferential tax policies, their tax obligations can be less demanding than the so-called little people's. In fact, the very wealthiest Americans' tax burden has been steadily dropping for years, even as they've enjoyed astounding income growth not seen by the vast majority of Americans.
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Tax rates for the wealthy have fallen substantially since they peaked in the 1940s. During the past 30 years, they have been cut at a much faster rate than middle- and low-income taxpayers'.
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ust how much of a windfall are tax cuts for the wealthy? The extension of the Bush tax cuts pa#sed last year will provide $146,000 in annual tax savings, on average, to each of the wealthiest 0.1% of Americans.
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The superrich get an additional boost from relatively low tax rates on capital gains. Income from long-term investments, which makes up a larger portion of wealthier taxpayers' incomes than middle- and low-income taxpayers', is taxed at lower rates than wages.
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Payroll taxes (deductions for Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance) are mostly paid by the bottom 90 percent of earners. When they're factored in on top of income tax, the gap between the tax rates at the very top and everyone else shrinks even more—so much that the effective tax rate for people earning more than $370,000 is nearly the same as for those earning between $43,000 and $69,000 a year.
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Payroll taxes now make up nearly as much of federal tax revenue as individual income tax. Meanwhile, revenues from corporate taxes have decreased significantly over the past 50 years.
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Corporations exploit various loopholes and tax breaks to reduce their IRS bills—perhaps none more notoriously than General Electric. Though the corporate tax rate is 35%, GE has paid nothing near that for nearly a decade.
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Leona Helmsley's distaste for paying taxes eventually landed her in federal prison. But the rich have little need to break the law to avoid the tax collector. As Martin A. Sullivan of Tax.com recently calculated, a New York janitor making slightly more than $33,000 a year pays an effective tax rate of nearly 25%. And the effective tax rate for a resident of the Park Avenue building named after Helmsley, earning an average of $1.2 million annually? A cool 14.7%.
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Only Little People Pay Taxes | Mother Jones


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12 comments for "Apr 15 - Only Little People Pay Taxes"


 04-16-2012, 08:17 AMaway - #2
DEDOS
the bush tax cuts and the wars are the reason we are in this mess


clown[..] republicans are the master of the spin [pic]
 04-16-2012, 11:33 AMaway - #3
RAZAH CUTS
this country is such bull!!... [pic]
 04-16-2012, 12:03 PMaway - #4
CadillacVyse
Wealth inequality is the main reason the economy will never make a significant n sustained comeback. Stagnant/Cutting wages, sending jobs overseas, etc have been slowly bleeding the middle cla#s dry.
 04-16-2012, 03:15 PMaway - #5
ahenson
productive ppl shouldn't bear the burden of heavy taxation, u never heavily tax the rich or your in trouble. these looters would rather see people with money pay 70% of their income to the government when they pay most of the aggregate of taxes anyways. im appalled by the rhetoric of broke niccas.

i can never understand how higher confiscation of property (income), can make these hobos happy. but its the rich fault that these spendthrift looters are taking the nation down.
 04-16-2012, 03:54 PMaway - #6
Prince Ace
the title confused me a bit. i was lyke "well im 6'1 and i damn sure pay my taxes" then i read on n was lyke "oooooooohhhhhhhhh"
 04-16-2012, 03:57 PMaway - #7
philly337
Originally Posted by DallasTexas
man i fukin cant stand republicans, especially young ppl who are only repubs because their parents are,,, these fukers are living a liberal lifestyle, drinking, smoking, fukin and etc but want to get all active when it comes election time,,,man sit the fuk down,,, used to argue with this !! that claimed to be a repub who just got done forcing a girl to get an abortion,,,yea thats prolife


then you got the poor ppl that are repubs
that makes no fukin sense at all

i got a rich aunt and a poor aunt,,,,, the rich one influenced the poor one that is on disability and housing[..]istance to vote republican and has her brainwashed,,,, its crazy because the ppls he will vote for if they could would take away all of her govt funding and have her on the streets


ppl are fukin idiots
exactly lol
 04-16-2012, 04:34 PMaway - #8
WifeRaperMagnus
Originally Posted by 206 MrSonics
i thought this was bout midgets payin taxes [pic]
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 04-16-2012, 08:23 PMaway - #9
mikesaimname
Originally Posted by DallasTexas
used to argue with this !! that claimed to be a repub who just got done forcing a girl to get an abortion,,,yea thats prolife

for republicans its ok to give her the $400 and force her to do it....they just don't want her to have the choice on her own
 04-16-2012, 10:46 PMaway - #10
Ham Rove
idk how any free thinking person could wanna vote for the Republicans, they wanna set us back 100 years.
 
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