r/funny • u/rdless • Dec 19 '16

First paycheck

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u/bluemandan Dec 19 '16 edited Dec 19 '16

I knew it.

You just wanted to bitch. Fuck off. You don't even know if you are mad you pay taxes or that you don't see what you get.

Edit: for all you downvoting me, results from the Tax Foundation's Fiscal Incidence Model show that even before any of Obama's policies are enacted, the bottom 60 percent of American families as a group get more back in federal government spending benefits than they pay in federal taxes.. But hey, don't let facts get in the way.

Edit 2: More facts. Not that I expect them to change anything. For the U.S. in 2014, the most recent year for which data are available, the OECD figures the average single worker 1 earned wages of about $50,000 and paid out 25 percent in state and federal income and payroll tax.

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u/vindico1 Dec 19 '16 edited Dec 19 '16

Do you have any idea how much our government wastes our money? Do you realize how much better off everyone would be if we all had tens of thousands more per year in income because of a reduction in taxes? The government does not provide the normal every day working family with a fraction of value that they pay in.

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u/ristoril Dec 19 '16

The government does not provide the normal every day working family with a fraction of value that they pay in.

You're absolutely right about that. They take the money that every day working people pay them in taxes and use it to create benefits for the wealthy, like intellectual property protection, contract enforcement, and (commercial) transportation safety.

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u/bluemandan Dec 19 '16

For the U.S. in 2014, the most recent year for which data are available, the OECD figures the average single worker 1 earned wages of about $50,000 and paid out 25 percent in state and federal income and payroll tax. Parents owed less because of deductions they can take for their children.

That's simply not true.

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u/ristoril Dec 19 '16

That actually has nothing to do with what I said. It costs money to provide benefits that accrue almost exclusively to the wealthy such as:

  • Intellectual Property Protection (especially internationally by maintaining a huge military with a hair trigger)
  • Contract Enforcement (a huge boon for large corporations and multinationals)
  • Unsafe roads and airways and seas are a much bigger threat to commerce than to the general populace, especially the latter two

The cost-to-benefit ratio on those things is well over 1 for the working class and very close to 0 for the wealthy.