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Gallup tracking poll only buttresses the findings of those surveys. Over the course of several years, Gallup asked people whether they thought certain sectors of the country paid their "fair share" in taxes. Bottom line: Americans haven't thought that "upper-income" individuals and corporations have paid their fair share for many, many years.
Here's how many respondents said upper-income people don't pay their fair share:
- 2019: 62%
- 2018: 62%
- 2017: 63%
People were even less impressed with the contributions of corporations:
- 2019: 69%
- 2018: 66%
- 2017: 67%
Given that reality, Senate Republicans up for reelection next year might just take a pass on heading up opposition to Biden’s eventual bill unless they can find an entirely different point of contention. But by all means, McConnell, keep on crowing about Democrats raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations to pay for making high-speed internet available in rural areas. Hear, hear!
Senate Republicans removed all the non-mystery of whether they might become part of the solution to America's infrastructure problems on Thursday when Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declared bipartisan outreach dead. "That package that they're putting...
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But don't worry, that money will trickle up to you, when we get it. No really.
> Here's how many respondents said upper-income people don't pay their fair share: 2019: 62%
> People were even less impressed with the contributions of corporations: 2019: 69%
50% of people have below-average intelligence.
Also, about 50% of Americans pay no Federal income taxes themselves, so something is quite selfish about those figures.
These people think they have a privilege that I pay for, and allows them to demand that their neighbors, who are more successful than themselves due to their intelligence, luck, and/or hard work should pay more? Why do they feel they have a right to demand other's who pay even more taxes than they do, pay yet more?
Must be a Democrat thing.
The wealthiest among us pay most of the taxes, and that pays for most of the operations of the government, including schools, roads, law and order, defense, energy, etc. Personally, I am thankful and wish them even greater future success, but I do pay a tidy sum of taxes myself.
Demonizing the successful has to stop. We need to encourage success. Everyone would love to be successful. Everyone can be, if they strive to do so, every day.
I'll have to unpack a few things here to answer.
50% of people have below-average intelligence.
This is true, this means that what people want and what is smart aren't always the same thing. For instance believing that reducing the amount of taxes the government receives has no consequences on infrastructure projects, pensions, and other ESSENTIAL services that make a first-world nation a first-world nation.
The fact of the matter is that in a society, ( a very rich society) the government plays an essential role in funding a minimum standard of living that is available to all its citizens.
So the question then becomes is how we pay for it. Democrats propose that those that can afford it the best pay a proportionally larger share. Republicans seem to suggest that either no one pays for them as the last tax reduction said or that we lower the standards of the services or don't provide them at all.
These people think they have a privilege that I pay for, and allows them to demand that their neighbors, who are more successful than themselves due to their intelligence, luck, and/or hard work should pay more? Why do they feel they have a right to demand other's who pay even more taxes than they do, pay yet more?
A "privilege" is something only available to one person but not another. Roads are available to everybody, high-quality healthcare is available to everybody that the bill proposes to target for tax increases, the same goes for access to housing, education, child care on all the other things the proposal suggests to offer for its citizens.
And the reason Democrats feel that we have a right to ask that of those that are more successful is that those that are more successful can afford it better than those that struggle to pay their bills. The difference in the quality of life between someone who earns 400k instead of 500k a year is more marginal than the difference between making 40k instead of 50k.
Demonizing the successful has to stop. We need to encourage success. Everyone would love to be successful. Everyone can be, if they strive to do so, every day.
The problem is not everyone can be successful as is proven by the millions of people who aren't. Poverty is not a choice neither is falling sick or not being smart enough to go to college, or being a certain color, or living in a school district with inadequate resources, or any of a million reasons a person will not turn up rich. Demonizing the successful has little to do with it ( although I would argue that a lot of people who are successful aren't above acting like demons to increase their succes)
What this bill proposes is to make a system that allows a greater chance of success for ALL Americans, and increases the minimum standard of living for all Americans and proposes a way to fund that plan.
