Poverty in the United States....Air Conditioning, Cable TV and an Xbox!

[get_involved]

Poverty in the United States: Air Conditioning, Cable TV and an Xbox | The Heritage Foundation


Conservatively 40% of American workers pay no income tax, ZERO. Meanwhile the top 10% of American income earners fund 70% of total federal income taxes.

The Tax Foundation - Number of Americans Outside the Income Tax System Continues to Grow

 

[bucs90]

Old news. It's very well known that poverty in America is a condition of envy, not a condition of questionable survival.

 

[Londoner]

Poverty in the United States: Air Conditioning, Cable TV and an Xbox | The Heritage Foundation


Conservatively 40% of American workers pay no income tax, ZERO. Meanwhile the top 10% of American income earners fund 70% of total federal income taxes.

The Tax Foundation - Number of Americans Outside the Income Tax System Continues to Grow

9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes

 

[shintao]

Poverty in the United States: Air Conditioning, Cable TV and an Xbox | The Heritage Foundation


Conservatively 40% of American workers pay no income tax, ZERO. Meanwhile the top 10% of American income earners fund 70% of total federal income taxes.

Explain these figures.

 

[Wiseacre]

Poverty in the United States: Air Conditioning, Cable TV and an Xbox | The Heritage Foundation


Conservatively 40% of American workers pay no income tax, ZERO. Meanwhile the top 10% of American income earners fund 70% of total federal income taxes.

Explain these figures.

That's gotta be a load of crap, no way are the top 400 averaging 344 million bucks a year in income.

 

[bucs90]

Shintao, your graph only showed me that the rich pay a shitload of money in taxes. Millions, compared to the few thousand the rest of us pay, and most of us don't pay federal income taxes at all.

 

[Annie]

Poverty in the United States: Air Conditioning, Cable TV and an Xbox | The Heritage Foundation


Conservatively 40% of American workers pay no income tax, ZERO. Meanwhile the top 10% of American income earners fund 70% of total federal income taxes.

Explain these figures.

I was looking for a source for figures, missing. Please provide.

 

[editec]

I guess I'm not quite poor enough to have Air Conditioning, Cable TV and an Xbox!

The truly poor have all the luck, I guess.