In Monday\u2019s post I gave some anonymous children a hard time about their goofy worldviews and political opinions. They\u2019re kids; I get it. They\u2019re just parroting disturbing information peddled by so-called grownups who should know better. Speaking of which\u2026<\/p>\n
Consider this. An item in that same newspaper (The Washington Post<\/em>) references a Gallup poll from earlier this year in which 61% of respondents say what they pay in income tax is \u201cfair.\u201d (I\u2019m guessing that would be the bottom 61%, which pays hardly any income tax at all.) I believe the stat is intended to show that Americans really don\u2019t pay very much in taxes. Well, the problem is that we really don\u2019t pay<\/em> taxes per se, the way we pay for gas or milk or cottage cheese. Income taxes, specifically (and a number of other things), are deducted from our paychecks (those of us who receive paychecks) before we even see said money. Trust me, if we all were given our gross salaries and they told to pony up to Uncle Sam at the end of the month, that figure would be a lot less that 61%.<\/p>\n Only 26% of people surveyed say they pay \u201ctoo much\u201d in taxes. But 60% say \u201ccorporations\u201d pay too little. Never mind that \u201ccorporations\u201d don\u2019t really pay anything; people<\/em> do, but I digress. To this one I\u2019d say good job, media, for making the American public think that it\u2019s greedy \u201ccorporations\u201d eating out our substance.<\/p>\n Personally I thought the kids\u2019 answers were much funnier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Monday\u2019s post I gave some anonymous children a hard time about their goofy worldviews and political opinions. They\u2019re kids; I get it. They\u2019re just parroting disturbing information peddled by so-called grownups who should know better. Speaking of which\u2026 Consider … Continue reading