joepilsudski
23 Jul 2011
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2531]
Here's a look at individual tax rates and shares by income in 2007, the most recent data available from the Internal Revenue Service:
The top 1 percent: Americans who earned an adjusted gross income of $410,096 or more accounted for 22.8 percent of all wages. But they paid 40.4 percent of total reported income taxes, an increase from 39.9 percent in 2006, according to the IRS.
The top 5 percent: Americans who earned $160,041 or more accounted for 37.4 percent of all wages in 2007. But they paid 60.6 percent of the country's total reported income taxes, up from 60.1 percent a year earlier.
The top 10 percent: Americans who earned at least $113,018 paid 71.2 percent of the nation's income taxes, up from 70.8 percent a year earlier.
The top 25 percent: Americans who earned at least $66,532 paid 86.6 percent of the nation's income taxes, up from 86.3 percent a year earlier.
The top 50 percent: Americans who earned at least $32,879 paid 97.1 percent of the nation's income taxes, up from 97 percent a year earlier.
The bottom 50 percent: Americans who earned less than $32,879 paid 2.9 percent of the nation's income taxes, down from 3 percent a year earlier.
Also notice that those listed in the top bracket here can in no way be viewed as 'super rich' or anything resembling it...There is a 'super rich' category, but you won't find these listed on any IRS tab-sheet.
usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/who-pays-most-income-tax.htm
But other factors must be taken into consideration here, as these are individual tax rates/percentages as reported by IRS:
We also have numerous state and local sales taxes;
We have various government licensing fees, from cost to register a car, to cost of business/vending licenses/permits...These are a form of tax.
We have various inflations/deflations of the purchasing value of the US dollar, another form of tax.
Interest rates on loans, another form of tax.
Cost of waging foreign wars, an extremely exhorbitant form of tax.
In addition, corporate/financial entities have the use of extremely sophisticated 'instruments' to hide/move and even create money...Whether one would consider such instruments a form of taxation on the working population or simply a form of extortion/larceny/counterfeiting is simply a rhetorical question.
Back to guns. IMHO, an individual law abiding citizen has the right to own a firearm for self protection and sporting purposes...Criminals will own firearms in any case...Common sense would dictate that a gun owner should have instruction in the proper handling, maintenance and storage of said firearms.
The top ten percent paid seventy percent of federal income taxes. Forty-nine percent of U.S. households paid no federal income tax at all.
Here's a look at individual tax rates and shares by income in 2007, the most recent data available from the Internal Revenue Service:
The top 1 percent: Americans who earned an adjusted gross income of $410,096 or more accounted for 22.8 percent of all wages. But they paid 40.4 percent of total reported income taxes, an increase from 39.9 percent in 2006, according to the IRS.
The top 5 percent: Americans who earned $160,041 or more accounted for 37.4 percent of all wages in 2007. But they paid 60.6 percent of the country's total reported income taxes, up from 60.1 percent a year earlier.
The top 10 percent: Americans who earned at least $113,018 paid 71.2 percent of the nation's income taxes, up from 70.8 percent a year earlier.
The top 25 percent: Americans who earned at least $66,532 paid 86.6 percent of the nation's income taxes, up from 86.3 percent a year earlier.
The top 50 percent: Americans who earned at least $32,879 paid 97.1 percent of the nation's income taxes, up from 97 percent a year earlier.
The bottom 50 percent: Americans who earned less than $32,879 paid 2.9 percent of the nation's income taxes, down from 3 percent a year earlier.
Also notice that those listed in the top bracket here can in no way be viewed as 'super rich' or anything resembling it...There is a 'super rich' category, but you won't find these listed on any IRS tab-sheet.
usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/who-pays-most-income-tax.htm
But other factors must be taken into consideration here, as these are individual tax rates/percentages as reported by IRS:
We also have numerous state and local sales taxes;
We have various government licensing fees, from cost to register a car, to cost of business/vending licenses/permits...These are a form of tax.
We have various inflations/deflations of the purchasing value of the US dollar, another form of tax.
Interest rates on loans, another form of tax.
Cost of waging foreign wars, an extremely exhorbitant form of tax.
In addition, corporate/financial entities have the use of extremely sophisticated 'instruments' to hide/move and even create money...Whether one would consider such instruments a form of taxation on the working population or simply a form of extortion/larceny/counterfeiting is simply a rhetorical question.
Back to guns. IMHO, an individual law abiding citizen has the right to own a firearm for self protection and sporting purposes...Criminals will own firearms in any case...Common sense would dictate that a gun owner should have instruction in the proper handling, maintenance and storage of said firearms.
