Brutus said:
the top 1% pay more than their fair share
The correct way to view the issue of of "fair share" in this context is to understand the share of benefit from the economy that the top 1% have received. For example, the average bottom 50% taxpayer has only $15,000 left over after paying their income tax liability, the average top 1% taxpayer has $923,000 left over. That means that the 1% taxpayer benefited over 61 times more than the 50% taxpayer ($923,000/$15,000), that's 6,100% more. Applying the same computation to the top 10% taxpayers, they receive well over 14 times more than the bottom 50% taxpayer, and that's at least 1,400% more.
Even that straight line assessment doesn't really tell the whole story of the magnitude of the economical imbalanced benefit. Since both taxpayers are humans, there are limitations to consumption required to sustain life. For example, just because the top 1% has 61 times more money, he/she doesn't eat (doesn't need) 61 times more food volume, can't drive (doesn't need) 61 times more cars (can't drive more than one car at a time), can't wear (doesn't need) 61 times more shoes at one time, can't live in (doesn't need) 61 times more homes at one time, can't wear (doesn't need) more than one Gucci watch at a time, etc., etc., etc. The % of the left over money that goes to things that sustain life maxes out fairly quickly, then the rest is fat, excess, and that excess is used to simply make more money for the 1% taxpayer in the next year, and that makes the disparate imbalance even worse. It is an unhealthy snowball effect that takes place over time in our biased economic system.
In contrast, the bottom 50% taxpayer has only $15,000 left over and that isn't enough to sustain life, that is subsistance. Top 1%, 61 times more benefit, bottom 50% at less than subsistance. I know that has no effect on your mind, your logic, your conscience, your sense of fair play, your sense of properly oriented perspective, of what works for the vast majority of the working class in this country.
For some inexplicable reason, you hard headed, myopicly minded, simplistic thinking right wing hobbits can't see the reality of the situation. You immorally refuse to see the real economic truth. You completely disregard and repeatedly refuse to acknowledge or address the fact that the bottom 50% taxpayers are in dire straits while a small minority of people, the wealthy, have gotten all the wealth that the economy has produced, to an excess far beyond what they can even come close to consuming. This has no effect on you block heads, you never acknowledge the actual disparity that exists.
If we were only talking about the bottom 5% as being in dire straits, and the top 70% of taxpayers as having a good excess, and the differential 25% being at a level slightly above subsistance, that would be almost palatable. But that isn't nearly the case, you immoral morons.
You really lose your credibility and show your true warped and flawed adversarial perspective when you acerbicly accuse the left of jealousy and envy at not having abundant wealth. You miss the point because you are evaluating based on your view of someone else's having wealth. We take issue with the disparity because of the concern over the plight of the majority of the working class.. The issue is deemed as an abomination because so much wealth has been created but inequitably finds its way into the pockets of the few at the top. We consider that as an unnecessary waste of wealth, since much of the wealth does not get into the pockets of the working class that earned it, created it, and needs it. We are concerned with the plight of the majority of the working class that is living at below subsistance. While you, on the other hand, could care less.
More to come when I have time. I am going to pick you block heads off, one at a time.
