Does Obama think that the bottom 50 % of all wage earners are paying their " fair share " of income taxes by ?

He is a Looter. They are Moochers.

The relationship between the two is such that he and his gang arrange for the Producers to be taxed so that they can direct part of the confiscated money to the Looters. The Looters in turn re-elect them.

That's how it works..

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I don't think he said that. Where's your source? If you are talking about the top 1 or 2% of incomes, those are not wages. Investment income is not the same thing as wages. If you want a larger segment of the population to pay some federal income tax, perhaps you should advocate getting rid of child deductions. I think the problem is not that the upper income folks don't pay their fair share of taxes but that too much wealth is going to the top quintile. Our tax code needs to be overhauled so that companies will have the incentive to make capital investments instead of paying out huge dividends and multimillion dollar salaries to management. We also should remember that while income tax is progressive, meaning the more you make the more you pay, other taxes are regressive, meaning the poorer you are the higher percentage of your income goes to those taxes. Examples are gas tax, utility taxes, property taxes (as part of rent), and sales tax. In Mississippi, even grocery staples like bread and milk are taxed!

The rich should pay their share but for those who are feeling so sorry for the 'poor' nine tenths of those 'poor' don't have to be if they'd get work and pay their fair share. They are no better than the rich getting all the entitlements, still work, still collect child support and yet still get my tax money. At least the rich benefit something to society.

Obama and others with some fiscal sanity know that by taxing the income of homeless collecting bottles, pop cans, and cardboard will probably not have much of an effect on our problem.

Those who CAN should pay more ... however in the US those who CAN have access to all sorts of lurks like creative accounting ... off shore bank accounts, trust funds etc etc ... so really it's those wage earners whose taxes keep the whole sorry shebang going ... !

yeah, let's increase taxes on the poor that spend most of their money... THAT WILL REALLY HELP the economy...

and it will riase tax revenue by a good 3 or 4 percent... I mean, the lower 50 percent make so much money that raising their taxes will create a HUGE amount of income... lol

1. the poor should be in jail

2. anyone making below 250k should pay 75% tax rate.

3. above 250k - 0% taxes

obviously rich people know how to manage their money and work much harder than poor people and should be rewarded as such.

Dave thinks HALF of us are in poverty AND that there are only 100 million of us - unless he's just a liar, of course.

Even the poorest of the poor pay a 7.65% tax rate. You can't get social security and medicare contributions back.

Those poor babies the rich usually pay around 15% (long term capital gains). The middle class pays most of their income at 22.65% or 32.65% rate.

No, not even Obama is that stupid. What he does think is that if he villainizes "the rich", his supporters will rally around him for their share of the free cheese.