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Zero Hedge points out that 47% of Americans won't pay a single cent in taxes in 2009, despite utilizing government services far more than the other 53%. What's more is that 5% of taxpayers account for 60.6% of all tax revenue.
Brilliant plan to keep the country happy: the poor pay no taxes, the rich get a massive stock market bubble to sell into, and the disappearing middle class...well, they can pay $20 for a hotdog and beer combo in Prague on that once-every-five-years vacation.
47% Will Pay No Federal Tax In 2009
Redistribution is healthy. You really are nuts buddy. Sure lets create an entire country with the GM union mentality. We see how well that has worked. Yes lets convince all that there is no benefit to work harder because whatever extra you might receive would be shared with those who do only the minimal required.
Obviously you have no respect for what has made this country great.
Me- Guy, I work with GM, it wasn't the union guys who effed that up, it's the guys like Wagoneer who paid themselves 8 figure salaries while marketting cars no one wanted to buy. The unions made concession after concession, and things still got worse.
YOu know who beat them? The Japanese. Japanese unions are even...