Comment by 15155
The vast majority of adults and their children will never pay their tax burden proportionately.
The vast majority of adults and their children will never pay their tax burden proportionately.
Grade school math. Look at income tax receipts: the top 5% pay >61% of all income taxes.
You can try and split hairs with "sales taxes" and "payroll taxes" and try to shimmy things into some anti-capitalist stance ("but the companies benefit from their labor!!!," "renters pay property taxes indirectly!"), but the overwhelming majority of all tax payments come from a small percentage of individuals.
> Grade school math. Look at income tax receipts: the top 5% pay >61% of all income taxes.
This is a nonsense comparison unless you include the proportion of income that said taxpayers earn.
Why does this matter? The government spends X dollars each fiscal year, divided by the number (N) of people. Most people aren't paying X/N.
The government would not be able to fund every social program or services if it weren't for these receipts, which, most people cannot afford to pay. Even 100% of the majority of salaries can't cover this amount.
Pretty cut and dry.
How do you figure that?