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Good Luck said:
Well, first thing noticeable is the tables prove that the article's use of "under $50,000" as an indicator of who pays federal income taxes is, indeed, arbitrary and misleading. The bottom-half cutoff is actually $32,879. Thus, stating that 45% of Tea Party members make less than $50K has no statistical validity, and any conclusions drawn from the $50K figure are equally invalid. In fact, since 50% of the general population makes less than $32K, and the pollsters had to raise the bar to $50K to cover 45% of Tea PArty members, that would indicate that their conclusion is dead wrong: Tea Party members are more likely to be paying federal income taxes than the general populace.

In short, the Tax Foundation data proves the writers of the article to be flat out liars.


The Tax Foundation also shows that 1 percent of tax payers are paying over 40% of total tax revenues on less than 23% of total taxable income. That should make anti-wealth liberals somewhat happy.
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It should also make anti-Obama Teabaggers happy, since they erroneously believe they're being taxed to death, when they plainly aren't.
 
Smarter Than All Y'All said:
It should also make anti-Obama Teabaggers happy, since they erroneously believe they're being taxed to death, when they plainly aren't.
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The term is "Tea Party". Your continued use of the derogatory only shows your true colors.

And please, point out the section in the Tax Foundation that specifically addresses where average Tea Party members fall in the various tables showing tax burdens relative to income. It's already shown the article's claims that Tea Party membership stats are close to general public stats in those factors to be lies.

Also, a NYT (hardly a Tea Party fan) poll indicates that average Tea Party members actually tend to make more than the general populace average, which in turn means they, on the average, pay more taxes, thus further indicating your decrying of hypocrisy is not well aimed.
 
Good Luck said:
The term is "Tea Party". Your continued use of the derogatory only shows your true colors.

And please, point out the section in the Tax Foundation that specifically addresses where average Tea Party members fall in the various tables showing tax burdens relative to income. It's already shown the article's claims that Tea Party membership stats are close to general public stats in those factors to be lies.

Also, a NYT (hardly a Tea Party fan) poll indicates that average Tea Party members actually tend to make more than the general populace average, which in turn means they, on the average, pay more taxes, thus further indicating your decrying of hypocrisy is not well aimed.
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If my "true colors" include mocking loosely-organized gangs of incoherent extremists, then I'm guilty as charged. Teabaggers they are.

As to your other points, the Tax Foundation doesn't address the category of Teabagger, just income strata.

Are you claiming that the NYT (usually derided and pilloried by the Teabagger-friendly) identifies Teabaggers as being in the top tier of wage earners who (according to the Tax Foundation and Rush Limbaugh) pay most of the income taxes?
 
Smarter Than All Y'All said:
Who are you to tell me I shouldn't tell you you shouldn't believe you're being taxed to death?

Read the 1st Amendment lately?
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i guess i'm the same kind of person that can tell you that you shouldn't tell me i'm not being taxed to death, much like you're the same kind of person that can tell me not to tell you what kind of education you received or that you've forgotten history.

that pesky first amendment and all.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
i guess i'm the same kind of person that can tell you that you shouldn't tell me i'm not being taxed to death, much like you're the same kind of person that can tell me not to tell you what kind of education you received or that you've forgotten history.

that pesky first amendment and all.
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So now we finally agree. :clink:
 
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