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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (178623)9/7/2001 3:16:16 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Funny thing is IMHO, is that tax rates are pretty flat. One just has to belive (as I do)that FICA really is a federal income tax. FICA insures that middle and lower income levels pay their fair share of taxes. Therefore, I also believe that the rich do not pay nearly as much a percentage of Federal taxes as many conservatives say...because many working class people probably pay more in FICA than in Federal Income taxes.

Of course that won't change the fact that wealth and income are not exactly the same thing. IMHO tax structures other (european) countries have are designed to keep social and economic classes in their place - to deny the ability to move upward.
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