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Comment on U.S. Government Tax Collections 1968 – 2007 by jerry

jerry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:53:32 +0000

Are you sure that this graph shouldn’t be normalized by inflation or population or GDP or something?

Comment on Comparison of Share of Income to Share of Income Taxes Paid in 2007 by jerry

jerry — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:36:35 +0000

I think the suggestion that America as it is today should just not have an income tax is absurd. For the first 126 years of America’s existence, we didn’t have an interstate system, or much of an education system, or a space program, or a gigantic world-dominating standing army with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and stuff like that in it.
Personally, I like having those things. You may as well say “America did just fine without automobiles and telephones for the first 126 years of its history.” … times change.

As to who benefits from taxes… I say the wealthy certainly benefit more than anyone else, and it is fair to ask them to pay more. The reason is: most of the spending is military. Having a big military means that people can’t just come over and take your stuff away at gunpoint. The wealthy have most of the stuff, thus derive most of the benefit from this. I don’t think they’re going to starve if they are asked to chip in a little more to cover it.

Comment on Comparison of Share of Income to Share of Income Taxes Paid in 2007 by John Poughkeepsie

John Poughkeepsie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:32:09 +0000

I would love to see where the tax dollars get spent geographically. I will bet that states like Texas get an inproportionate share of Federal tax money doled out to them compared to states large tax paying states like Connecticut, California and New Jersey. Does anyone know of a report or chart that follows this?

Comment on Comparison of Share of Income to Share of Income Taxes Paid in 2007 by PerotCharts

PerotCharts — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:44:12 +0000

RE: Comment #11 below–
Yes, tax revenues did decrease from 2001 to 2004 as a result of the ‘01 asnd ‘03 tax cuts. But notice the sharp increase in tax collections after 2003. See this chart: http://perotcharts.com/category/budget-deficit-charts/page/2/
Editor

Comment on Comparison of Share of Income to Share of Income Taxes Paid in 2007 by akornoh

akornoh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:03:02 +0000

I would like to see a similar chart which includes the Social Security and Medicare taxes. The true tax burden on a working family includes these taxes. In addition, since the employer pays an equal amount of those taxes (thereby redirecting value generated by that labor to the government), I would like to see a chart which includes The employer portion of the Social Security tax and medicare tax.

Thanks

Comment on Comparison of Share of Income to Share of Income Taxes Paid in 2007 by bbowzer

bbowzer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:07:26 +0000

… demonstrates how damaging the Bush tax cuts were. They dropped revenue substantially. If those are reinstated, plus the Iraq war ended then the budget is nearly balanced for the long term.

Comment on Living in Exponential Times by bbowzer

bbowzer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:06:07 +0000

I recall growing bacteria in a flask. Once the population hit the exponential growth rate we’re experiencing, it very quickly consumed all available resources and the growth stopped and declined. This is 100% repeatable and is scary for our times.

Comment on Living in Exponential Times by bbowzer

bbowzer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:04:33 +0000

Now that’s cool!

Comment on CBO’s Estimate of the President’s Budget by bbowzer

bbowzer — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:56:24 +0000

The CBO published 2 charts a while back — one showing a *balanced budget* if the Bush 2001 tax cuts were allowed to expire, and another if they were continued. I can’t find these anywhere — can you locate these?

Also, could you put a chart together of revenue vs expenses — it would be interesting to see how the Fundies respond when the $618 billion defense + $200 billion war spending is shown right next to the $1.1 Trillion budget. After all, if we eliminate social security, medicare and medicaid it’ll have no impact because those are fully funded by taxes.

Comment on United States Oil Imports by Country: March 2008 by Poor Saudi Arabia. - SoWal Beaches Forum

Poor Saudi Arabia. - SoWal Beaches Forum — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:27:21 +0000

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