Armen wrote on 10/06/16 at 13:39:26:


You've got a line to some insight few regular Joes ever see.


Really, the FAIRNESS of the income tax,, ohh, how to get it Right.
Exactly HOW does one Fairly exact money from someone?
If you're not sweating, working, actually DOING, producing a product, just making money off of Money? You can pay.

Raleigh Guy said:

"If somebody out there paid $40,000 for a stove, that means the company that made that stove made a heck of a profit. Hopefully, that appliance company pays their employees a decent amount to make those overpriced stoves so it seems to be trickling a little bit whether that rich dude likes it or not."

Not bloody likely. Remember, these are the folks that have moved our manufacturing jobs overseas, and destroyed Unions in the US. The golden days of the US were (not coincidently) the years of highest Union membership. It's now down about 8%, although to listen to the rich, you'd think all the money goes to union members who get paid to do nothing, and people on welfare.
The highest income tax brackets we had were during a Republican administration (Eisenhower) and at a time of the highest union membership in the US.
Now the rich pay very little in taxes, most people work at crap jobs with no benefits or pensions, and most products are made in China.
If you look at costs in modern manufacturing, it's more about pollution and safety laws than labor rates. True, people in China work for less money, but with the minimal number of people actually needed in a modern factory, it's more a question of getting the land cheap and being able to pollute the land, air, and water. And kill the workers.
Look at the pics of big cities in China. They look like the US 50-100 years ago. Air is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
It's also about profit margins and shareholder dividends. And insanely disproportionate CEO salaries and bonuses. And advertising costs of the products. The people who actually sweat to make products are considered the least important in the cost basis formula.
Remember the line from the movie "Greed is good!" ? It was supposed to be so absurd it was funny. We didn't realize at the time that so many people took it as Gospel.

And you have Reason to believe that the parties are actually opposed to each other because Why?
Ohh, because they are always repealing the enemy's legislation..

Riiiight...

So, 56% of earnings is gone, before you buy anything.
33,600 is gone
26,400 left

Around 20,000 actual disposable ,straight
Price of product..

That's about $22,200.00 which would be like having
About$1,800.00 to pay the bills and eat.

I don't have a single clue what the cost of living is, other taxes, fees, but I would feel broke as heck .
We paay property taxes, that take$1,800.00 away..
Talk about a screw job..