re: #348 NamDoc67

These things are not being fully paid for now. To the extent they are paid for, the money largely comes from middle and upper income tax payers. The lower 50% (like me) don’t pay any federal income taxes at all.

My whole point, which you apparently don’t get, is about spin: the absurdity of the mindset which believes that one is somehow being given something by the government (a “windfall”) merely because the government declines to take from him more of what is his in the first place. He isn’t “getting” or being “given” anything.

So you pay no income tax at all? How is that…do you have a huge mortgage, a bunch of kids or what?

Because I know a lot of lower income families and single people making around 30k a year. They do pay income tax. They pay in all year. Some of them get a refund, but not all of what they paid in for federal income tax. I hear this crap all the time; that the bottom 50% pay nothing. It is bullshit.