Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes.
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.