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Why the divide? The middle class already pays most of the taxes and not getting the benefit as much as the lower income earner and now they are not getting help

Why the divide? The middle class already pays most of the taxes and not getting the benefit as much as the lower income earner and now they are not getting help as well? If you want to make the divide why not just the really high upper income earner vs the rest of the population, since most people in middle class, though they have savings more than $15k are just regular people like you and me, with families and responsibilities. I personally don't like it, and I think a lot of middle class won't like it. If you want to do something like this then do it like Andrew Yang, no questions asked to all. I'm not a lower income earner, but I don't have big ticket items as well (not even a car or house).

mywittyname 7y ago
The lower 70% includes pretty much the entire middle class.
brosinante 7y ago
Those poor middle classes, haven't they been through enough? They can't even lift themselves up through their bootstraps like those deplorable "low income earners".
- LunaSea 7y ago
  One social program for me, but not for thee.
- christiansakai 7y ago
  Why the name calling? Nowhere we mentioned low income earners as deplorable. Fix the speck in your eye first.
cmcd 7y ago
> The middle class already pays most of the taxes I'm not so sure about that. The top 1% pays 37% of federal income taxes. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% paid only 3% and 44% of paid nothing at all. Depending on the source you use the middle class in America is typically considered to top out at incomes between 100k and 122k. In either case the middle class pays less than half of income taxes. Then looking at the bigger picture we see income taxes only account for 60% of all taxes. Sources: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2018-update/ https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-... https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-irs-data-book https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-irs-data-book
- metalchianti 7y ago
  This can be misleading because it doesn't account for wealth concentration. When you realize HOW MUCH of the wealth the 1% control, 37% seems small.
  - exclusiv 7y ago
    That doesn't make the statement misleading. We tax income. The middle class doesn't pay the majority of taxes. You may think there should be a wealth tax but the statement isn't misleading. The prior statement was inaccurate.

mywittyname 7y ago

The lower 70% includes pretty much the entire middle class.

brosinante 7y ago

Those poor middle classes, haven't they been through enough? They can't even lift themselves up through their bootstraps like those deplorable "low income earners".

LunaSea 7y ago
One social program for me, but not for thee.
christiansakai 7y ago
Why the name calling? Nowhere we mentioned low income earners as deplorable. Fix the speck in your eye first.

cmcd 7y ago

> The middle class already pays most of the taxes I'm not so sure about that. The top 1% pays 37% of federal income taxes. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% paid only 3% and 44% of paid nothing at all. Depending on the source you use the middle class in America is typically considered to top out at incomes between 100k and 122k. In either case the middle class pays less than half of income taxes. Then looking at the bigger picture we see income taxes only account for 60% of all taxes. Sources: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2018-update/ https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-... https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-irs-data-book https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-irs-data-book

metalchianti 7y ago
This can be misleading because it doesn't account for wealth concentration. When you realize HOW MUCH of the wealth the 1% control, 37% seems small.
- exclusiv 7y ago
  That doesn't make the statement misleading. We tax income. The middle class doesn't pay the majority of taxes. You may think there should be a wealth tax but the statement isn't misleading. The prior statement was inaccurate.