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Yes...but payroll taxes max at about $125,000 in income

Posted on: November 16, 2018 at 10:53:23 CT

MrBlueSky MU

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payroll taxes are fairly regressive compared to income taxes.

All I'm saying is people who don't pay federal income taxes still pay taxes.

A good first step would be to stop incentivizing childbirth.

Edited by MrBlueSky at 11:01:33 on 11/16/18

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Change of pace, what can the left and right agree on? - Gyro MU - 11/16 09:55:04

RE: Change of pace, what can the left and right agree on? - JG A - 11/16 11:23:52

Trump is an embarrassing low intelligence buffoon(nm) - FIJItiger MU

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Tax and spend(nm) - jmlppx MU - 11/16 10:39:07

Infrastructure = pork - Ferg MU - 11/16 10:33:32

Names of post offices or federal buildings - mu7176grad MU - 11/16 10:18:28

That control of the greatest financial machine ever seen on - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 11/16 10:11:36

No torture, great schools, technological advances - raskolnikov MU - 11/16 10:11:12

Those damn rich guys(nm) - jmlppx MU - 11/16 10:40:21

RE: No torture, great schools, technological advances - MOCO SON MU - 11/16 10:23:57

Really - raskolnikov MU - 11/16 10:27:06

RE: Really - MOCO SON MU - 11/16 10:31:17

I always wonder - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:21:22

decentralization (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 11/16 12:00:04

End the Fed, returning to sound market money. (nm) - ummmm MU - 11/16 10:34:25

As well as decentralizing govt power. - ummmm MU - 11/16 10:35:54

RE: I always wonder - MOCO SON MU - 11/16 10:33:04

I got mine GFY seems a common state of mind - raskolnikov MU - 11/16 10:25:12

RE: I got mine GFY seems a common state of mind - MOCO SON MU - 11/16 10:35:47

Not a Socialist but guess you felt you just had to say that(nm) - raskolnikov MU - 11/16 10:42:53

If that is a common state of mind why does a governmental - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 11/16 10:28:26

Would you fall into the new tax bands that would impact - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 11/16 10:20:51

What if - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:22:05

RE: What if - MOCO SON MU - 11/16 10:37:52

So does that question infer a no to my original question?(nm) - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 11/16 10:24:09

I would not be in my proposed $5+ million bracket, no - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:28:21

Why not propose the new rate $1 below your current income? - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 11/16 10:32:12

Fine, I'm on board. (nm) - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:52:09

Excellent. Perhaps you should have started at that - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 11/16 11:15:53

How about everyone having skin in the game(nm) - tman MU - 11/16 10:23:43

Well, I would argue everyone already has skin in the game - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:33:56

Payroll taxes are for specific funding of mandatory - Bulldog Bob Brown STL - 11/16 10:36:58

Yes...but payroll taxes max at about $125,000 in income - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:53:23

excellent analogy rask - SwampTiger MU - 11/16 10:19:18

One thing that will come up in the next week: farm bill - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:09:31

RE: Change of pace, what can the left and right agree on? - MOCO SON MU - 11/16 10:04:52

Spending uncontrollably, war, debt, spying on Americans, - El-ahrairah BAMA - 11/16 10:02:31

Legalizing marijuana - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 09:58:09

US borders are not completely closed.. we let in 1 million - Spanky KU - 11/16 10:05:48

As I said some middle ground. - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:07:34

Dems don't think merit is a middle ground.. they think it's - Spanky KU - 11/16 10:13:27

Hmm - MrBlueSky MU - 11/16 10:16:56

'..a campaign to make America white again..' are her words - Spanky KU - 11/16 10:24:11