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Originally Posted by Robbie
My argument is...because they didn't PAY any taxes to begin with!
And yet, a few years ago they all received checks from the govt. as a big national "tax refund"!
Remember that?
Everyone I know who actually pays taxes was furious over that! How the fuck can you get a "refund" if you never paid?  |
Everyone pays taxes to begin with... they get a refund at the end of the year returning back "income tax" but not any of the other taxes.
Only a very small fraction of the population pay zero taxes through refunds, the "truly" poor. That's something like single $9k a year, or 22.5k for a family of 4. At that, you pay 0% tax on that first $20k as well, and even get a refund... however because you earn more (not because you are taxed more) your refund side is absorbed up.
Those checks went to tax payers.... 100% of them. It wasn't your money that they got, it was their money.