This is real money. Join in on the live conversation. You work hard to provide your family with food, clothing and homes. We spend more on taxes. Afrnling 29. 4 of the house hold budget. The tax system is a multiheaded animal. And animal whose appetite is affecting every from the rich to the poor and then state taxes and property taxes and payroll taxes and lots more taxes and individual income taxes represents the largest come moent and the United States has a progressive tax system and we have agreed that high income earners pay a higher percentage of the income than those earning less. 7 federal income tax brackets as low as ten percent, all the way up to 39. 6 for the highest earners. The more you earn the higher the tax rate on the marginal income above the threshold that got you into the bracket that you are in. We have done that, that system, because disspite the fact that some think it is a dirty word, america judged it important to use the tax to redistribute the wealth in thi
This is real money. Join in on the live conversation. You work hard to provide your family with food, clothing and homes. We spend more on taxes. Afrnling 29. 4 of the house hold budget. The tax system is a multiheaded animal. And animal whose appetite is affecting every from the rich to the poor and then state taxes and property taxes and payroll taxes and lots more taxes and individual income taxes represents the largest come moent and the United States has a progressive tax system and we have agreed that high income earners pay a higher percentage of the income than those earning less. 7 federal income tax brackets as low as ten percent, all the way up to 39. 6 for the highest earners. The more you earn the higher the tax rate on the marginal income above the threshold that got you into the bracket that you are in. We have done that, that system, because disspite the fact that some think it is a dirty word, america judged it important to use the tax to redistribute the wealth in thi
This is real money. Join in on the live conversation. You work hard to provide your family with food, clothing and homes. We spend more on taxes. Afrnling 29. 4 of the house hold budget. The tax system is a multiheaded animal. And animal whose appetite is affecting every from the rich to the poor and then state taxes and property taxes and payroll taxes and lots more taxes and individual income taxes represents the largest come moent and the United States has a progressive tax system and we have agreed that high income earners pay a higher percentage of the income than those earning less. 7 federal income tax brackets as low as ten percent, all the way up to 39. 6 for the highest earners. The more you earn the higher the tax rate on the marginal income above the threshold that got you into the bracket that you are in. We have done that, that system, because disspite the fact that some think it is a dirty word, america judged it important to use the tax to redistribute the wealth in thi
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