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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Alighieri who wrote (17115)4/20/2010 9:45:47 AM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
What you are reading is extremely deceptive and designed to be that way.

I'm missing your point.

It says that if you your total income is 50K, you may end up paying no fed income tax AFTER DEDUCTIONS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE.

Is that not true?

What does it matter that the deductions are available to everyone as long as when they are used by a family at that earnings level, the result is no income tax paid?

You will still pay SS and Medicare, you will still pay state taxes and taxes paid for services, gas, etc..

That's beside the point. The point was about federal income taxes. It clearly specified federal and income.

if you make 50K and have four kids you are just scraping by...in some geographies you are very poor.

Yeah, but so what? Does that change the fact of whether or not they pain income tax? It doesn't. You can argue if you like that the burden of paying tax at that level would be unfair, but that doesn't change the fact of whether taxes are required or not.

There are consequences of so many folks not having skin in the game. You can argue if you want that those consequences are less important than the alternative. But I don't see how you can claim it is deceptive to state facts.
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