Who Pays The Most Taxes?

When you mention taxes, the Democrats pull a tired, old and stale page out of their playbook...'the wealthy need to pay their fair share. The rich should share more of the burden. Tax cuts favor the rich.' The truth is, and Democrats know this, the wealthiest among us do pay their fair share and more.

The top 1 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted annual gross income of $480,930 or higher, pay about 39 percent of federal income taxes. That means some 892,000 Americans are stuck with paying 39 percent of all federal taxes. Consider this:

  

 The top 10 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted gross income over $138,031, pay about 70.6 percent of federal income taxes. That is, about 1.7 million Americans, less than 1 percent of our population, pay 70.6 percent of federal income taxes. Is that fair, or do you think they should pay more?  (By the way, earning $500,000 a year doesn’t make one rich. It’s not even yacht money.) 

But the fairness question goes further. The bottom 50 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted gross income of $39,275 or less, pay 2.83 percent of federal income taxes.Thirty-seven million tax filers have no tax obligation at all. The Tax Policy Center estimates that 45.5 percent of households will not pay federal income tax this year.

So, when you hear the cries from the liberal left that the rich should pay more, it's nothing more than income distribution, the Robin Hood syndrome...steal from the rich to give to the poor. It's the rich that create the jobs in this country. A lot of what they earn goes back in to the businesses they've built which translates into jobs. Take that money away and less people will work. 

Why the Democrats wish to punish success, I'll never understand. 

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Deport Illegals...To Sanctuary Cities

There's some nonsense going around about the president floating a plan to take illegal aliens storming the border and 'deporting ' them to our wonderful sanctuary cities...San Fransisco comes to mind. Well why not? After all, sanctuary cities have often boasted about being open for illegals and they gladly welcome them.

But, wait. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose district is San Fran and is the queen of the open border crowd, has had a change of heart. She has had a typical liberal meltdown calling the plan "despicable." While she loves her illegal aliens, she doesn't want them in her back yard. She rails against a wall at the border to keep aliens out, but she has a wall around her mansion...to keep them out.

 

There's some nonsense going around about the president floating a plan to take illegal aliens storming the border and 'deporting ' them to our wonderful sanctuary cities...San Fransisco comes to mind. Well why not? After all, sanctuary cities have often boasted about being open for illegals and they gladly welcome them.

 

But, wait. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose district is San Fran and is the queen of the open border crowd, has had a change of heart. She has had a typical liberal meltdown calling the plan "despicable." While she loves her illegal aliens, she doesn't want them in her back yard. She rails against a wall at the border to keep aliens out, but she has a wall around her mansion...to keep them out.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

 

 

 

While there already are lots of illegals in sanctuary cities, the fact is these cities are being taxed economically as it is. A major push of additional people will will really squeeze them. They talk big about being the saviors of the downtrodden and depressed, but because they offer them "free' everything, from health care, food, education and more, they are strapped. 

 Pelosi and the Democrats are being hypocritical (what's new) by pushing for open borders but then not wanting these people in their cities. The truth is, all they really want is VOTES. And therein lies the rub. Why dump hundreds of thousands of illegals in sanctuary cities to give the Democrats what they really want, years of votes for 

liberal causes.

 

Oakland, Ca. Mayor Libby Schaaf, who famously warned illegals in her city of pending ICE raids so they could run and hide, joined in the meltdown calling Trump's plan "not American." Are the illegal loving Democrats having a change of heart?

While there already are lots of illegals in sanctuary cities, the fact is these cities are being taxed economically as it is. A major push of additional people will will really squeeze them. They talk big about being the saviors of the downtrodden and depressed, but because they offer them "free' everything, from health care, food, education and more, they are strapped. 

Pelosi and the Democrats are being hypocritical (what's new) by pushing for open borders but then not wanting these people in their cities. The truth is, all they really want is VOTES. And therein lies the rub. Why dump hundreds of thousands of illegals in sanctuary cities to give the Democrats what they really want, years of votes for liberal causes. Immigrants will soon realize that these places of paradise can't afford to keep them and they will begin to migrate to other cities in the          U.S.

   This is not a good idea. Once they're here, they're here for good. And the burden of keeping them     will be on us.

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