You're on a roll, Ronny!Originally Posted by champions77
The "rich don't pay any taxes" is a old Democratic lie that has been around for decades. The problem is that is a falsehood that unfortunately has to be refuted from time to time.
The Top 1%, the folks that have been demonized to the nth degree and have been accused of everything but the holocaust, pay in excess of 35% of the Federal income tax bill. The top 10%? Pay approximately 70% of the total federal income tax bill. As 52 states, the bottom 50% hardly pay anything. The last time I checked it was about 3.5%.
A number you should be more alarmed at is the almost 50 Million Americans that receive food stamps. Or the fact that almost half of all Americans received some form of federal government payment each month. Thanks to the DC politicians who have learned that dishing out more and more government "goodies" helps perpetuates themselves into office for seemingly ever, we now can state that we've become a bona fide welfare state. That virtues like self reliance, personal responsibility and work ethic created the greatest country on earth. And why now we have done everything possible to undermine those virtues, is in a big way why we see this country's slide into what you see today. Sad, very sad.
