-Last night, while watching a local news broadcast for the first time in what must have been five months, a brief survey conducted by the channel was brought up regarding why people don't like taxes. The majority of those in the survey body said their main reason for hating taxes was because they thought the rich don't pay enough.
-I simply wanted to provide a friendly reminder that this is a mistaken (not to mention hypocritical) belief.
-Half the people in this nation, in effect, do not pay income taxes. But they are not from the rich. Quite the opposite. The top fifty percent of taxpayers in the United States provide 96% of the Federal Government's tax revenues. The remainder typically tend to use the programs we've been funding with those tax dollars.
-People who live on the public dole and ultimately do not contribute to to the source funding do not have a right to complain about those who actually pay taxes. Government-subsidized welfare was never a really good idea, and income taxation is theft. Stealing from someone simply because their salary has six figures and because they can afford to buy an Audi and send their kid to a good school and you're not having one does not justify your taking from him. His gains did not come at your expense. This last point being the thing far too many Americans are either willfully ignoring due to their subscription to the politics of envy or simply just fail to understand.
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