daveman
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He's not wrong.
We make our money here, we raise our children here, we are a part of this country. If we don't give back to the country and only take, it ceases to be.
Sorry but it's true.
that is true, that's why it's so damn wrong that 50% of Americans pay ZERO FEDERAL INCOME TAX. It's time to change that. Know why? Cause the takers are soon to outnumber the givers.. and the country will cease to be.
This is the type of argument I love. Because the "takers" are basically at the top..not the bottom. The givers are the ones on the assembly lines producing goods, the truckers moving goods from place to place, the pickers of our crops, the people picking up the garbage, the people nursing our sick, the people protecting our communities, the people fighting the fires, the people working in grocery stores, the people making hamburgers, the people coding the applications, the people checking network connectivity, the people fixing the power lines, the people cleaning the sewers, the people running the trains, the people flying the planes, the people serving drinks and food, the people making furniture, the people moving furniture, the people off loading the ships and most every wage earner in the country. That's also where a majority of the troops fighting our wars come from.
The takers are the people that are executives at the places the givers work..and they feel they are entitled to make compensation which is vastly greater then the givers.
And that's the world Conservatives, support.
The takers. Or the Dragons of America.
Reality disagrees.
25 | March | 2011 | Indyfromaz's Blog: The Thoughts of An Independent Arizonan
Not surprisingly, as Figure 5 shows, government spent $10.44 on the lowest-income families for every dollar they paid in taxes. Remarkably, families in the middle-income group received $1.15 for every dollar they paid in taxes.
By contrast, the top 40 percent of families paid more in taxes as a group than they received in government spending benefits. The highest-income families received 43 cents in government spending for every dollar they pay in taxes, even though they are assumed in this study to disproportionately benefit from public goods such as national defense.
By contrast, the top 40 percent of families paid more in taxes as a group than they received in government spending benefits. The highest-income families received 43 cents in government spending for every dollar they pay in taxes, even though they are assumed in this study to disproportionately benefit from public goods such as national defense.