…It’s because he’s so off the wall, he’s sitting on the floor — pouting about how the rich gets picked on.
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{Putting on my sarcastic face…}
These charts have so totally convinced me that I should be poor. I mean look at it, if I were poor I would be living life high on the hog of poverty! I’d barely have to pay taxes (maybe none at all!), and the government would cut me a small cheque so I could maybe pay my rent [or eat] for the month, and I’d like, have to do nothing at all for it. And if I worked at all the government would just want to give me less money so I can’t easily work my way up to being rich again. Why don’t more people become poor and get a tax break?
It almost seems as if the rich (who have a God given right to own more resources than the dirty poor) are paying more for the privilege of owning more than other people. What an odd concept!
Don’t people know that the rich are entitled to their entitlements, and at the same tax rate as lowlife bums who make minimum wage?
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Sadly this is not the first time I’ve offered an alternative view of reality to Captain Capitalism’s, who may still think that it’s mass transit that clogs streets with traffic.
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Ashley | 28-Mar-07 at 6:06 pm | Permalink
“and the government would cut me a small cheque so I could maybe pay my rent [or eat] for the month ”
Remember that OR part. Thats truer than you know
Rosie | 28-Mar-07 at 6:27 pm | Permalink
oh, the downtrodden rich.
M@ | 28-Mar-07 at 6:50 pm | Permalink
I’m not sure I’m reading those charts right. Which one shows the ratio of taxes paid to income for each 20 percent? You know, the one that dispenses with the flat figures and actually shows some relevant, big-picture information?
What? None of them?
Huh.
Saskboy | 28-Mar-07 at 6:52 pm | Permalink
The comments cracked me up, one I was almost convinced was satire. Some guy saying that he’d been looking for those numbers for a while and was glad he found them. Obviously because he was happy to confirm that he was getting screwed for being well off enough to not be forced to decide between paying rent, or buying food in a given month.
Dan | 28-Mar-07 at 11:00 pm | Permalink
If it’s so hard for this guy to be rich, I will very magnanimously offer to take all his money off his hands. Yes, I will bear the wretched burden of his high taxes for him. Why? Because I care. And I want a nicer car.
Saskboy | 29-Mar-07 at 12:45 am | Permalink
Very gracious of you Dan.
canuckistanian | 29-Mar-07 at 12:20 pm | Permalink
ummm, what about that last graph that showed the top quintile and the bottom quintile receive the most gov’t benefits??? oh those poor rich folks, receiving more gov’t spending than the majority of taxpayers…they are sooo hard-done-by.
M@ | 29-Mar-07 at 12:23 pm | Permalink
Welfare bums!
Saskboy | 29-Mar-07 at 8:35 pm | Permalink
Canuckistanian, I fixed your URL in your name, it was missing a dot.