Big_Rig_Stig
Gawd
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#ThisShitRightHereI pay a lot of taxes and consider it my patriotic duty to do so.
When you've got people in the middle class paying 20%+ and people like Mitt Romney paying ~11% and profitable corporations paying 0% you've got a problem. And that problem has nothing to do with flat vs progressive taxes. It's largely:
1. Some income is considered "better" than other income, e.g. corporate income, capital gains, and pass through income (mostly earned by the wealthy) being taxed far less than income earned via the sweat off your own nut sack (the primary source of income for the middle class).
2. A million ridiculous loopholes which can really only be taken advantage of by the wealthy and corporations.
Both of which basically boil down to "we better suck a lot of 1%er dilz in the hopes that they'll trickle down some increasingly shitty lower middle class jobs onto our heads."