Tea Party Tax Payers Are Cheapskates Refuse to Pay A Dime For America
The Tea Party Patriots are outraged over super high taxes caused by out of control federal spending. Taxes and spending are the very essence of the Tea Party’s existence and hatred of government. This is why they call for a revolution and the refreshing of the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants .
I think the Tea Party Patriots are full of crap. The average member of the Tea party movement has an effective tax rate of about 10%. One dime out of every dollar to fund the greatest industrial power in the world.One dime out of every dollar to fund the greatest democrcy the world has ever seen. Is that too much to ask?
The chart below was taken from the Congressional Budget Office and shows that unless your freak’n rich, and if you’re an average american your not, your effective tax rate is around 17%. However, that includes social security which is not a tax since you get it all back when you retire. That puts you at around 10%.
So if 10 cents out of every dollar is too much, that would mean you want to pay something less, or a number that is something close to nothing. The people in the highest quintile of the chart have reason to be angry. But you average citizen are not in that category. You’re not among the super rich.
Which leads me to ask why you are so angry over the amount of taxes rich people pay? Did your rich boss give you a 20% rise last year? Is that why you’re defending him? I doubt you got any raise at all and you might even have gotten a pay cut especially if the increase in your health insurance benefit was larger than your pay increase.
As the saying goes freedom is not cheap. The Tea Partiers are certainly cheap but not freedom. Many of our ancestors fought in wars and many were wounded or lost their lives to defend this great democracy. The Tea Partiers are not being asked for that kind of sacrifice, just one dime out of every dollar. They complain over paying that meager amount.
If taxes are not your problem and big spending is not your problem (since you’re not paying for it anyway) then what is the problem? You don’t really know do you? Neither do I since your rhetoric is incoherent.
It’s not numbers and dollars that bother you it’s much deeper than that. It may be cultural, it may be religious or it may be racial. Your problem is not Obama or socialism. Your problem is that you’re being left behind if not outright robbed by the free market. That’s a condition that can be remedied, but not by siding with the rich. Your problem is sudden social change manifested by gay marriage, acceptance of pro-choice, and ascendancy of minorities into traditionally all white positions of authority.
A lot of what you stand for is unspoken and for good reason. It can’t be spoken aloud without revealing your bigotry, intolerance and the outright failure of your ideology as implemented during the Bush administration. Yes, we all want a revolution, but we just don’t want to be a part of yours.
