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Originally Posted by 12clicks
actually, if only people who paid income tax were allowed to vote, there wouldn't even BE a democratic party.
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If your solution is making the poor pay more in taxes it's gonna be a long time till the problem is solved especially when you factor in the whole thing about them really not having any money. You know.. Poor.
Considering the group that doesn't pay any income taxes truthfully only makes up 1% of the country I am sure the democratic party will be just fine. When you get past the soundbites of "50% pay no taxes!" you realize that the truth is a little more complicated. As usual.
"The Tax Policy Center?s estimate means that some 76 million households won?t pay federal income tax in 2011. But they still owe other taxes. About two-thirds pay payroll taxes, and most pay state and local income and sales taxes as well as excise taxes on gas, tobacco, cigarettes and alcohol. Of the one third who don?t pay payroll taxes, more than half are elderly who no longer work, and just under half are families with incomes under $20,000. Only about 1 percent of the population pays neither income nor payroll taxes and earns more than $20,000 a year, according to the Tax Policy Center. "
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