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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:10 AM Original message |
February 1964..Beatles at Ed Sullivan Theatre (tax rate chart ) |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:13 AM Response to Original message |
1. I love you for doing this. But you knew I loved you anyway. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:14 AM Response to Original message |
2. PAYROLL taxes are much higher. Over 85% pay more in payroll taxes than income taxes. nt |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Could you provide a source for your statement, please? |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:16 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Here are a couple |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:31 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. OK, you meant the tax rate. And that payroll taxes are at a higher rate than income taxes for a |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Try looking at the graph in the OP, which includes...payroll taxes. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Which shows the top income tax rate to be 35% and the top 'payroll taxes' to be 15.3%??? |
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anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:17 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. You seemed just to asking for information about the rate of change in payroll taxes |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
3. Who the hell only pays 15% in payroll tax? i have been paying 18-19% for 20 years!! |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Most people equate 'payroll taxes' to just SS and Medicare which is set at 15.3% for self-employed |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:58 AM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Social Security has been raising HUGE SURPLUSSES for decades . . . |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Corporations for decades have been paying 8% and less . . . large corps . . |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
5. That's one for you, nineteen for me. nt |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:36 AM Response to Original message |
6. I keep asking people where the hell they were in the 1970's, when I paid over twice the |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. The tax burden has shifted to the payroll tax, which has gone up while income taxes |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:00 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. The dollar feels like it's worth only 1/2 of what it was when Bush "won" -- |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
17. That graph really does say it all. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
18. since you mentioned college |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:33 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I was poor, and because of my grades got a full-ride scholarship |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. was that because of grades or because of grades and poverty? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Truthfully, I never really even "applied".. My high school guidance counselor |
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Wednesdays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
22. The Good Old Days |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 12:50 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Sounds like most families back then |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 02:03 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Well, one couldn't support all of that on one teacher's salary |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
25. Here're the top rates going back to 1916. |
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