Dec

08

2009

A measure of whom is owned by Government?

by Skip

Who owns the fruits of your labor?

Top 1% income taxes

 Certainly, the Government believes that – let me repeat the graph:

  • Top 1% of all income earners pay 40.42% of all income taxes
  • The bottom 95% of all wage earners pay 39.37%

The graph comes from The American Enterprise Institute; they have another

Citizens paying no taxes

 The operative questions are, which I have asked before:

  • Is it good for society to punish people for being productive? Is that FAIR?
  • Is it  good for society for the vast majority of citizens to have a free ride?  Is that EQUITABLE?

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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