It's true that the bottom 50% of wage earners pay only 3% of federal income taxes. 47% have no income tax libiality at all. Yet, that's not good enough for the socialist morons.The top 1% of earners pay about 40% of all income taxes. The top 10% of earners pay about 60%. Yet, that's not enough for the socialist morons.
Americans do lack knowledge in the area of who pays the taxes. What the socialists have been successful in doing is convincing demoscat voters that they will tax business and corporations but what really happens is that businesses and corporations have to pass those taxes on to consumers in the form of higher prices for what they buy.
So, when these socialist demoscats cheer, stamp their feet in glee and bay at the moon that the government is going to tax business to pay for their socialist give aways...in reality, they authorized the tax on themselves.
Yes, every citizen, natural or naturalized who is not a felon is permitted to vote.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money. Well, who isn’t? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he’ll do good with his own money—if a gun is held to his head.
-P.J. O’Rourke
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury.
-Alexander Tyler
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
-Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men’s rights.
-Abraham Lincoln[/b]