Did I say that or did I say the upper echelons that make over a million the very top .05% that pay what the wipe their arses with?
If my dad makes $5 million and pays under $2.5 million in taxes (state, local and Federal) and still drives a Porsche, a Range Rover, 2 Benzes, has a time share in Fire Island and takes 3 or 4 trips a year to Jamaica and the Carribean, has season tickets to the Indians and belongs to Muirfield Village Golf Course, and his taxes keep getting cut, while my wife and I barely make $30,000 and with taxes we pay about $5,000 and the hidden sales taxes keep going up, who misses the money the most?
And no it's not a slam on my father, it's a totally realistic question. Even he believes he doesn't pay his fair share, he sees that his tax cuts are being paid for by his children who barely make livings.
So to use that tired cliche that the upper 50% pay more than the poor is tripe because the poor pay far more than they can afford.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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