I'm not sure about your numbers. Because I know that if you make $20,000 or less you pay NO taxes. If you make between $20,000 and $75,000 (around there) you pay between 10-20%. And if you make $100,000+, you pay at least 40% and sometimes even 50% after state excise taxes, et cetera. That means, that all the wealthy people are not only paying for America's upkeep, but they are also giving all the "poverty" stricken people a chance to save their money and do something with it.
Uh, I made around 20k last year and paid about 3k in taxes, do the math and thats 15%. I don't know where YOU are getting your numbers from.
Yeah, for 1 year, big whoop! Those familes have already been on welfare and have had their livelyhood payed for for most of their life. Quit giving these people free money, me and my family had to work, why don't they have too?
Uh, do you know how many middle class children do not have health insurance? It's not just 'welfare' kids. Many of those poor families DO work, but are not paid nearly enough.
Please name this failing system, is it called free handouts sponsored by the left?
Um, the failing system is called Laissez-Faire Capitalism. It sucks. I'm not for a complete socialist system, but a mix. Definitely against this "hands off" form of capitalism.
You can say thanks to all the illegal mexicans, or other illegal immigrants for stastisic. And as for our minium wage, we need to lower it. It's basic economics actually, the higher the minimum wage the less money there is to go around. The lower the minium wage, the more there is to go around. The higher we raise minimum wage the higher our poverty rates will go.
Why are you going to lower the minimum wage? People already cannot survive on minimum wage because rent is so high in this country. When you're spending a whole paycheck on rent, somthing is wrong. Land prices are insane and poor people cannot afford to buy land, so they are forced to rent. If you work 40 hours a week, you should be rewarded with a comfortable life. That is the American dream, and if you don't agree, you're a selfish bastard. Straight up.
And Nexus, would you rather be rich or poor? It seems like you hate rich people and all your comments have something to do with "old white rich fuckers" or something. I hope that one day you can become rich and succesful through hard-work and see things from another point of view, instead of just wading in your own self misery.
I will never become rich. Money doesn't own me. I would rather live happily and content than walk on poor people to afford a yatch. Right now, I cannot live comfortably because the rich abuse the working class to make themselves money. The less they pay us, the more they have to spend on next year's newest mercedes.
Greed should be against the law.