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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (644017)1/29/2012 8:27:36 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1582527
 
>> There trying to heap everything possible that she pays directly or indirectly, on her, while only counting his direct federal income taxes.

Exactly.

But there is an inherent unfairness and misrepresentation in including the payroll tax (SS/MC) in the computation. After all, these are supposed to be "lockbox" items that, by statute, only apply to earned income. This is what really pisses me about this argument -- as we're now commingling these taxes on earned income with taxes on unearned income, which is a slippery slope to extending these taxes to all income.

It is a way for supporters of big government to avoid the central issue: that Medicare and SS are both failed programs that cannot possibly continue without levying totally new taxes -- something FDR himself would NEVER have supported.

And as of now, the liberals are winning this argument. In politics, if you're explaining you're losing -- and there is simply no way to address this issue without explaining it.
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