Who pays taxes in the USA?
What percent pays no taxes at all???

Excluding the young, many in college, and the retired, (both groups should pay less or no taxes)...
the rest of America, the vast majority of America... NEAR 80% PAY TAXES.

The Brookings Institute.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/jobs/posts/2012/04/06-jobs-greenstone-looney

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Corporations pay the least taxes

Then change the tax code, something the Dems don't want to do, and force the corporations to pay their fair share.

It's those Govt hatin, Right Wing, Militia lovin, Gun totin CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS who don't pay taxes!

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Who pays taxes in the USA?
What percent pays no taxes at all???

Excluding the young, many in college, and the retired, (both groups should pay less or no taxes)...
the rest of America, the vast majority of America... NEAR 80% PAY TAXES.

The Brookings Institute.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/jobs/posts/2012/04/06-jobs-greenstone-looney

Taking into consideration the increasing number of people living longer and thus collecting SS longer, AND the reduced number of people in the workforce, this Graph brings home the fact that we can NO longer fund the entitlement programs at the level we do. No politician has the courage to say it.

Nobody pays taxes; we all pay for these government programs through inflation.  Inflation steals your money a nickel at a time, gradually clearing out your savings and returning it to the 1%

You don't accumulate $16 tillion in debt and run a $1 trllion annual deficit by paying your bills on time.

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Nobody pays taxes; we all pay for these government programs through inflation.  Inflation steals your money a nickel at a time, gradually clearing out your savings and returning it to the 1%

You don't accumulate $16 tillion in debt and run a $1 trllion annual deficit by paying your bills on time.

This is the result of trickle down theory being morfed into trickle offshore economics.

How does a country spend 16 trillion and have nothing to show for it?

It was all sent to offshore accounts.

Nothing trickled down in the US except the increased flow of poverty.

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It was all sent to offshore accounts.

Assuming you're speaking of the CURRENT administration, you're right, China.  

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Assuming you're speaking of the CURRENT administration, you're right, China.  

Well Obama sent 6 trillion on his watch.

The other 10 trillion came from Bush lite.

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Well Obama sent 6 trillion on his watch.

The other 10 trillion came from Bush lite.

No, the other 6 billion came from the 40+ previous administrations, interest included.  Obama has added 60%  to the last 200 years of debt.

But that's ok - you go ahead and vote for Ron Paul or Obama ... you won't be around (neither will I) when our kids and grandkids need to repay that debt.

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But that's ok - you go ahead and vote for Ron Paul or Obama ... you won't be around (neither will I) when our kids and grandkids need to repay that debt.

Are you suggesting Romney has a secret formula that will prevent my kids from paying the massive entitlement and war debt?  I'd like to hear more about it.

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No, the other 6 billion came from the 40+ previous administrations, interest included.  Obama has added 60%  to the last 200 years of debt.

But that's ok - you go ahead and vote for Ron Paul or Obama ... you won't be around (neither will I) when our kids and grandkids need to repay that debt.

Raegan started the debt with massive tax cuts for the rich.

Obama's deficit never went over 2 trillion in any year.

It's been like 1.7, 1.6, 1.7 and still less than 2 trillion projected for 2012.

You must think he should have just let the inherited, pending, bankrupt nation occur.

Avoiding bankruptcy costs money.

Tax cuts for the rich caused the national debt.

It started with Ronald Raegan.

So, no it wasn't 41 previous administrations.

It was Raegan, Bush and Bush.

Clinton did not add to the debt. He reduced it.

The debt before the Raegan tax cuts was almost immeasurably small.

All the money has been siphoned up, instead of trickled down.

L4L - you've been drinking too much kool-aid.  I'm not suggesting you switch to tea, but wake up and smell the roses.  You're more intelligent than that.

How much has our dollar dropped in value since Obama and Ben started up the old printing presses?? That's a form of debt as well as our credit rating being lowered.