Posted on 12/12/2012 8:24:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
To best understand this spending aspect of the current budget negotiations in Washington, we must answer one crucial question: how much taxation on the top income-earners would be required to fully fund the present level of government spending?
To do so, we must first make the unreasonable assumption that the rich will not respond to confiscatory tax rates and hide money from being taxed. This is unreasonable because no scheme of taxation since WW2 has been able to capture more than 21% of GDP. With current spending levels around 23% of GDP, history suggests that no level of taxation we have yet tried would actually fully fund our current level of spending. But if we indulged some "static scoring" and assumed a static tax base, what would a zero-deficit, soak-the-rich taxation scheme look like at current spending levels?
For example, what would a 100% income tax on all those who earn over $10 million amount to? I'm not taking about a wimpy marginal rate, where one might tax only those dollars of income over $10 million (leaving the taxpayer $10 million). No, I'm saying you find all those who made more than $10 million and take every last penny -- an absolute tax of 100%.
Using 2009 data, the IRS says that 8,274 tax returns were filed with incomes over $10 million. The total amount of income on those returns was $240.1 billion.
Our federal government alone is spending more than $10 billion a day. Thus, a 100% confiscation of all income of those making more than $10 million would amount to less than 24 days of federal spending.
If we drop that "tax" point down to $1 million, the picture changes radically. The IRS says 236,883 Americans filed returns with more than $1 million in income.
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It’s never been about finance; you should not expect communists to make policy on economic grounds, only political ones.
Pretty frickin' incredible. This cannot end well.
Anyone with any brains realizes that this ‘rich people not paying their fair share of taxes’ is just a ridiculous canard.
There isn’t enough of their actual income to make a dent in the deficit, let alone the national debt.
What the Democrats are after, have always been after, is the assets of the American citizen; their IRAs, their 401Ks, their trusts, and their savings over some meager amount.
In turn, they will add 4 or 5 hundred dollars a month to your generous Social Security check (in return for your IRAs et al) and call it evens-stevens.
In short it’s a total redistribution of wealth they’re after, nothing less.
Article assumes 100% federal tax at various income levels. Any lieberal reading it should be made aware that that would leave each and every taxpayer owing, depending on where he or she (or it) lives, about 5 or 6% in the hole to their state, and totally default on their real estate taxes (or landlord, etc), and of course not able to eat. Anything.
Let’s compare a million to a trillion.
(10^6 vs 10^12, in scientific notation)
It would take a million millionaires to fund one trillion.
It’s all about WANTING things to crash. The powers that be WANT the economies of the world to go down. WHY? It’s the only way the globalists can institute their NWO.
Can’t get people to swallow a new cashless system if the old one is working. Spend till it crashes.
What does someone who’s facing bankruptcy do? Run up that credit card as high as they can before filing chapter whatever and get what they can while they can.
This goes right along with their assertion that tax cuts “cost the government”.
They come from the viewpoint that the government owns everything, and anything they allow you to keep is at the expense of government.
They really NEVER say how much spending “costs” the government. It seems that the outflow is just a given, and can never be anything but constantly increasing.
Soviet America is almost complete!
If Establishment Republicans had any clue they would seize on these facts, and hammer them home (with charts, TV specials, etc.) and keep repeating them until they finally settled in with even the lowest of the low-information people out there.
Conservatives understand you can’t keep spending like we’re doing, but sadly, a lot of people out there simply think we can just stick it to “the rich” to solve all of our problems. They’re never hearing the truth to the story.
“Trillion is the new Billion”
At this point paying taxes is like handing a can of gasoline to the man who’s going to burn down your house.
The Establishment Republicians have a clue, the problem is that they are also Progressive Socialists. You are looking at liberals with suits.
What is going on is nothing but the biggest con game in history, that will destroy all that generations have worked for for centurys. All so a select few can enrich themselves and have power over others. It is not treason to the state, it is treason to Humanity.
It will end with a super politician, worshiped by many, called the Anti-Christ in the Bible. The NWO will be established for only one passing purpose, to put Satan in charge of mankind. My guess is that it will not end well.
Cloward - Piven
That's fine for the first year. But, what about the out years?
i can just about guarantee that everyone who loses 100% of their income in year one will not be working in year two! How can they?
Think “Atlas Shrugged” writ large.
What options will the Central Government have in year two? Something along the lines of the people's Democratic Republic of Korea perhaps?
Don't you just love it when liberals ask with a straight face, "How are we going to pay for that tax cut?"
He's already in the White House.
i can just about guarantee that everyone who loses 100% of their income in year one will not be working in year two! How can they?”””
The larger question is WHY WOULD THEY???
ping
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