But you don't pay 22%, closer to 7-9%, and people making in excess of $1million a year are paying at least 15% or more.
You never addressed my questions of who contributes more to his country, the rich guy or the guy like you, and how would taxing them more effect your life.
me: paid 22% last time i was a full timer making about $28k.
romney: makes $20 million: pays 13%.
romney: responsible for extracting profit from companies, closing down the company, declaring bankruptcy, then making taxpayers foot the bill for pensions. narrows tax base by thousands of workers. takes advantage of situations where reward is personalized and risk is socialized. shelters the money from taxes, hides it overseas. lobbied congress to keep his tax rate artificially low.
me: never extracted wealth in the millions at the expense of others, sheltered it from taxes, hid it overseas, and lobbied for the tax rate to be lower than a schlub making $28k. takes advantage of situation where reward is personalized and risk is very personalized. if someone falls off those treadmills, i'm in for it.
as far as making the country a better place with more equal opportunity, i would say i have done less to hurt the american dream than the romney type guy out there.
romney doesn't even produce anything. he make hundreds of millions by buying up companies, extracting the profit, shutting them down, firing all the workers, sticking the taxpayer with the bill for firing all the workers, and calls it a day.
i labor my ass off to produce treadmills for a living. in fact, my treadmill production is often responsible for me being able to employ others to help trim treadmills or look after my treadmills when i go on vacation. and i pay well, $15 an hour to trim treadmills, $80 a day just to sit there and make sure the treadmills don't catch on fire.
Oh, and did you notice you said "pad" instead of paid and didn't capitalize your I's ?
I wouldn't have brought that up, but I know things like that bother you!
Yes, I caught the misspelling of "paid". I did not bother correcting it.