re: #143 BigPapa

I didn’t say it was hard to understand, I said it was a relatively complex concept, sorta like the difference in retail sales regarding margin/points. It’s not rocket science or AGW, but it’s a step up in complexity from the base.

‘I pay X% on income’ is simple.
‘I pay X% on my income to level X, I pay X% on income to Level Y’ is a little bit more complex.

I’m not surprised that many people don’t understand this especially if they’re working a job and have a family and pay somebody to do their taxes. This is not an excuse and is no comment about the GOP, but my point is being shocked or aggravated that nobody else knows as much your issue as theirs.

I have no problem with people not knowing how taxes work. I don’t know all sorts of shit I should know. I don’t even mind if people don’t care.

But (having read the thread in question), when people who have aggressively bitched and moaned about tax policy and other people’s opinions on it turn out to simply not get how we calculate income tax, it does take me aback somewhat.

And it irks me, as it does when people complain about how bad “Obamacare” is, and then turn out to believe that the whole country is actually slated to lose their private healthcare and go on a single national plan.

And in both cases when these people, instead of absorbing the new information go on the attack…I get sort of twitchy.