Regarding paying a higher tax rate the higher the income.  Look at it this way, if you live in the basement you pay less per square foot than the guy living in the penthouse.  Most common sense people think that is appropriate.  My father used to say about success, when you get to the top send the elevator back down, d...more

If you take the subsidies that big corporations get, companies like GE paying no income tax some years and the fact that the majority of all the things paid for in this country comes from the middle class, I think some should step back and look at how almost everyone is being taken advantage of by special lobbyists, wa...more

I have many of the workers in the 20 to 30 thousand dollar range and none of them have indicated they get money back from the IRS.  I would be willing to put up 100.00 if anyone can show me that a rich person pays a higher percentage of their income for property taxes, road taxes sales taxes.  It is funny that even my ...more

I am one of those people who are in the top 1% and started in an old apartment building.  We were very poor and I have lived the American dream financially.  One thing I know from going up the ranks is that the poor and lower middle class may not pay any or little "income taxes" but the thing people forget is that they...more

Illegals that get a paycheck pay SSwith no hope of getting any SS.  How many people get money back from house insurance or car insurance unless you have an accident?  SS was intended to be a safety net so that no one had to stand in soup lines.  The original charter didnt call it a retirement account.  Most people will...more