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Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by bluedevil2k on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:43PM (#18215591)
What kind of anti-capitalist talk is this? How can you justify saying wealthy people receive more benefits? Poor people receive money from the government, like straight up cash on a debit card. They receive an hourly bonus through the earned income tax credit. They can receive free health care through Medicaid. The court system makes contracts fair and equitable precisely so that poor people aren’t taken advantage of. Check out all the mortgage/ home title papers you have to sign to get a house. And police are absolutely not providing better protection. If anything, they use the well off neighborhoods to raise some speeding ticket money.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by andybak on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:46PM (#18215604)
As a European I'm genuinely not sure whether this is satire or not.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by bluedevil2k on Sunday October 14, 2018 @06:00PM (#18215710)
Not satire - if you can provide more concrete examples of how the rich receive more benefits from the government, I’m open for learning.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by andybak on Sunday October 14, 2018 @06:35PM (#18215917)
I think it's down to how we define "more". In dollar amounts then no. You're correct.

But in terms of value? Almost by definition, the rich are benefiting from the status quo more than the poor and it seems to be a strange feat of logic to argue that they are getting the raw end of the deal.

It's not like the wealthy ever go "those people on benefits have it easy. Hell. I'm going to join them".

Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by bluedevil2k on Sunday October 14, 2018 @08:42PM (#18216558)
No, they don’t say they want to join the poor, but I think wealthy people think the government is not really involved much in their day to day life, whereas I don’t think poor people can say the same.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by quxbar on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:34AM (#18218666)
Let's say Wal-mart pays so little that their workers regularly have to go on food stamps to get by. Are those workers benefitting the most, or is Wal-mart? Working for low wages while additionally being held to the strictures of a government program is a double-dose of agency removal.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by pm24601 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @06:12PM (#18215785)
Pick a post from this site: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by bluedevil2k on Sunday October 14, 2018 @06:17PM (#18215827)
Ha, 3/4 of the page of an anti-capitalism website is trying to convince people to give them money.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by pm24601 on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:08AM (#18217732)
This is true of any non-profit as well. Salvation Army, goodwill... your point is not a point. Just a comment that everyone needs to eat.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by simonh on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:52PM (#18215648)
I used to work for a US bank. It’s not.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by Jtsummers on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:49PM (#18215628)
As an American I can’t tell either.
Re:Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in... by simonh on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:51PM (#18215643)
I think it’s hard to argue the wealthy obtain more benefits overall, but I think it’s fair to point out that there are some ways in which they (we, I’m in the top 2% in the UK but only just) do benefit more but are not charged for it.