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marcus
2015 Jan 1, 3:19pm
Their job is to keep the bottom 50% blaming each other. "Look, look, he's wants to take your job!"
Or the redneck blaming the damn liberals with their diversity and their tolerance and their environmental awareness.
OR the liberals blaming the gun nut Christianists with their talk radio nonsense.
None of that has anything to do with the way the owners are fucking us all over.
marcus
2015 Jan 1, 3:22pm
Bottom 50% still making ~11% of the national income. Funny how they do most of the work around here tho.
What do you mean? They're a bunch of takers that don't even pay hardly any federal income taxes !
(just kidding)
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2015 Jan 1, 11:50pm
Bottom 50% still making ~11% of the national income. Funny how they do most of the work around here tho.
What do you mean? They're a bunch of takers that don't even pay hardly any federal income taxes !
(just kidding)
Actually unless you are single, if you are in the bottom 50% of household income, you not only don't pay federal income tax, the federal govt pays you in the form of the EIC. I believe the limit this year for a family of four is around $50k.
http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-0
Highlights:
Top 1%'s, with over 20% of the national income, tax rate declined from 23.5% in 2011 to 22.8% in 2012.
Top 5% share went from 33.9% in 2011 to 36.8% in 2012.
Bottom 50% still making ~11% of the national income. Funny how they do most of the work around here tho.
Thanks GOP!