[eleni121]

It is rare that publicly funded radio allows a conservative to speak, but yesterday the unbelievable happened.

Steve Moore actually spoke out for the President's tax cuts and probably infuriated the few thousand liberals who heard it. After all, they are used to listening to Robert Reichhhhh pontificate about the joys of redistribution of income through higher taxation and government mandate.

[Gordongekko909]

I knew about the Capital Gains tax being ahead of the Laffer Curve... I wonder what other taxes are as well?

[Onelifetogive]

About 4 out of 10 Americans now make more than $50,000 a year -- that's up from 3 out of 10 in 1990.

While I agree with his premis, this stat is meaningless if it is not indexed for inflation...

[fhlh]

yet the MSN is dead silent....

but they trumpted "tax cuts for the rich" without issue.

[ex-snook]

"In other words, the richest 3 out of 100 Americans are now paying close to the same amount in income taxes as the other 97% of workers combined."

We all wish we were included with these who are paying more taxes.

[ARCADIA]

The percentage of federal income taxes paid by those who make more than $200,000 a year has actually risen from 41% to 47% in recent years.

What percentage of their income goes towards paying various federal excise taxes, and how does that compare with other Americans? The income tax is only 1 of the mechanism by which the Federal government empties your wallet, there are thousands of others and most of those are regressive.

[griswold3]

mark

[manwiththehands]

This is all meaningless if we're just going to SPEND ALL OF IT.

[ancient_geezer]

A Taxreform bump for you all.

If anyone would like to be added to this ping list let me know.

John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25) offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright and replace them with with a national retail sales tax administered by the states.

H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Refer for additional information:

• search: "national sales tax" OR "national retail sales tax" OR "fairtax"

[Mazda3Fan]

Interesting. I remember hearing the democrats back in the 80s when I was a kid saying that poor people were paying all the taxes. My father would always laugh and say ,"How can the poor being paying all of the taxes, they don't have any money!". Nothing against poor people mind you, but definitly against the democrats.

[NewLand]

Does anyone know where we can access these statistics on-line?