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Originally Posted by Madmartagen
You have that graph, I have this one so we have a difference of opinion.
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=145
"Taxpayers making more than $1 million a year get an average cut of nearly $113,000 this year. Such huge cuts at the top tend to pull up the numerical average that the President is fond of citing." |
I pulled my graph from the whitehouse.gov site, and being that you quoted that site earlier, I suppose you recognize them as a Reliable source?
From factcheck.org:
[quote:6f111]It is true that everybody who paid federal income taxes is getting a cut. But according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center ,
35.6 million individuals and families got zero benefit from the Bush cuts because their income was so low they were not paying federal income taxes before the cuts. This number includes 15.1 million workers who are paying federal payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare. That's 15 million "taxpayers" who were left out.[/quote:6f111]
If you didn't pay the tax, no you can't get money back. And everybody pays into Social Security and Medicare, everyone. Hell, last year I made around $1900, not much I know. I didn't have to pay any income Taxes, but I still payed Social Security, everybody does. No, Bush's plan didn't give refunds for social security "taxes", did anybody really expect that??? We pay that money for the benifit of those on Social Security or Medicare, Which we may be on one day ourselves. To give that money back to those 15 million "taxpayers" would be to 'disenfranchise' people who need social security or medicare, and have themselves been paying into it their entire lives.