Stop with your propaganda. These figures include FICA withholding. Democrats have been saying for decades that FICA withholding is NOT a tax because you get it back later. So which is it?
Democrats want to turn Social Security and Medicare into massive transfer of wealth programs by excluding a huge chunk of low income wage earners from paying FICA withholding. They will never admit that this is their goal, they instead call it a "tax credit", even though people who pay no actual income taxes will be able, in effect, to get back their FICA withholding. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Gruss wrote: > The CBO has released a new report on effective tax rates (total taxes > divided by total income). Compared with previous reports, it includes > more information about thin slices at the top of the income > distribution. Here are the total effective federal tax rates for 2005, > the most recent year available: > N.B.: These figures include all federal taxes, not just income taxes. > > http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/01/progressivity-of-tax-system.html > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:284308 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
