Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 wealthy do not pay enough taxes.

@shinobinoz Said

58 percent say the rich don't pay enough in taxes, while 26 percent believe the rich pay their fair share and 8 percent say they pay too much.
https://news.yahoo.com/most-americans-rich-dont-pay-enough-taxes-160833705.html

@Willi Said

everyone making over 250k a year isn't paying their fair share into social security.

@shinobinoz Said

58 percent say the rich don't pay enough in taxes, while 26 percent believe the rich pay their fair share and 8 percent say they pay too much.
https://news.yahoo.com/most-americans-rich-dont-pay-enough-taxes-160833705.html

@Pcptrvanion Said

I always liked the "Flat Tax".

Everyone's first $35,000 each year is exempt.

Everything over that is hit with a fixed, flat rate.

No exemptions.

No deductions.

How much did you earn over $35,000?

What is x% of that?

Send it in.

The 1040 could be a 3X5 card.

@Pcptrvanion Said

I always liked the "Flat Tax".

Everyone's first $35,000 each year is exempt.

Everything over that is hit with a fixed, flat rate.

No exemptions.

No deductions.

How much did you earn over $35,000?

What is x% of that?

Send it in.

The 1040 could be a 3X5 card.

@USAFPSPRET Said

Polls like this are just opinion pieces and subject to whom the polster spoke, where and why. The 58% cited could be heavily partisan in some respect for any number of reasons. Fact is the top 50% in 2009 paid 97.75% of income taxes while those under that percentile contributed only 2.25% of income taxes. The top 1%, those above your $250K target paid almost 37% of all US income taxes. Data was taken from the IRS and cited by https://ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html

If you want more taxes, perhaps less of an income tax and more use tax would situate people to "pay their fair share".

@USAFPSPRET Said

Polls like this are just opinion pieces and subject to whom the polster spoke, where and why. The 58% cited could be heavily partisan in some respect for any number of reasons. Fact is the top 50% in 2009 paid 97.75% of income taxes while those under that percentile contributed only 2.25% of income taxes. The top 1%, those above your $250K target paid almost 37% of all US income taxes. Data was taken from the IRS and cited by https://ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html

If you want more taxes, perhaps less of an income tax and more use tax would situate people to "pay their fair share".

@USAFPSPRET Said

To the OP:

The federal income tax and many state level taxes are income progressive in nature, but the totality of taxes from municipal to federal incorporates many static or non-progressive tax formulas that affect everyone. Property taxes are generally local or county driven by the assessed or perceived value of your property asset. Droves of this type of tax are out there that are levied by individual communities, utilities, even some state and federal formulas for non-income related taxing exist.

It doesn't matter what the 58% in this poll think or want. It won't get done under the present taxing systems. Even if income taxes were driven upwards for those making more than $250K, even $150K, it would be a pittance in the scheme of things given the how, where, why and what involving the good and poor use of tax money, not to mention the high level of greed and corruption associated with the politicians, lobbies, unions and special interests that move it.

No one in elected office is going to fix the present tax situation for any moneyed or indigent groups. How would you even address the community and utility based taxes that take in massive amounts of money with no concentration on income or lack of it? A study published way back in 1953 addressed progressive taxes at the federal level and advised then that massive funding problems would eventually arise that could not be addressed by simply taxing the wealthy, even to the point of 100% of any level of income over a fixed base. Did you somehow stumble on the solution?

@Pcptrvanion Said

I always liked the "Flat Tax".

Everyone's first $35,000 each year is exempt.

Everything over that is hit with a fixed, flat rate.

No exemptions.

No deductions.

How much did you earn over $35,000?

What is x% of that?

Send it in.

The 1040 could be a 3X5 card.

@Tar Said

Only one problem with this. The 35K should be adjusted for inflation every year

I believe the legislation exists. Its called

The Fair Tax Legislation