Barely 60% of Working Age Adults paytaxes - wtf?

[scottw]

Originally Posted by likwid

Gleaned from wherever:

But even citizens who pay no income tax still pay other kinds of taxes. .

and the people who actually pay all of the federal taxes pay those "other taxes" as well and are far less likely to be recieving government assistance and various freebies...isn't this the illegal alien argument that the left uses?..."well...they pay other taxes like sales tax and stuff.. ya know"....good God! the social security"tax" is supposed to be for their social security, not a tax...medicare...same thing...a downpayment on a future entitlement....where exactly did you glean this from?...I'd really love to know we're right at the tipping point...more people voting themselves benefits out of other peoples wallets than people that believe it's their responsibility to take care of their own wallet and a whole lot of enablers....YIKES!

[striperman36]

Here it comes!!!

VAT bend over U.S. eyes sales tax - BostonHerald.com

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by striperman36

Here it comes!!!

VAT bend over U.S. eyes sales tax - BostonHerald.com

Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office acknowledged it’s studying a value-added tax, also known as VAT, at the request of unidentified congressional staffers. No dollar amounts were mentioned.

The congressional staffers will have to be identified eventually, and then they will be voted out of office.

“The tax code remains too long, too complicated and too chock full of wasteful subsidies and giveaways that don’t make economic sense,” Kerry said in a statement.

“A big reform is overdue. We should simplify. You should look at and consider everything that would take some of the burden off of working people. We should definitely debate alternatives like the VAT, but the test of any idea should be fairness, progressivity and economic growth." -John Kerry

4 more years of dealing with the idiot. I just went to John Kerry's official website to try and find what he's done for Massachusetts lately... can't find anything.