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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: neolib who wrote (160328)10/26/2008 10:24:55 PM
From: ahhahaRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
1) Wage earning poor pay 15.3% higher taxes than is generally considered to be the case by most people yapping about taxation.

This claim can't be defended because it's incoherent. It says, "poor people pay 15% more than some unknown quantity and the quantity is the one I have in mind". That's your "simple point"?

This directly relates to your 5% of FICA for the lower 50% of households, which is a completely out to lunch claim.

What directly relates to FICA? Your unknown quantity?

2) The federal government in its implementation of SS is effectively not treating it (other than smoke and mirrors) as anything different from the general fund, so despense with the smoke and mirrors on both the income and expense side.

This is incoherent double talk.

You haven't made any argument. You've only tried to hide the fact that you've had your foot in your mouth the whole time.
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