Re: Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisis

On 6/7/2012 2:13 PM, El Castor wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:53:31 -0700, Islander<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 6/6/2012 11:06 AM, El Castor wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:55:19 +0200, Earl Evleth<evleth@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 5/06/12 20:00, in article baiss7l2ph5gor6lmshtj55mb4qor51bcd@xxxxxxx, "El
Castor"<DrEvil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The left wing solution is always the same -- raise taxes


The right wing solution is always the same---lower taxes.

The top 10% of federal income tax payers pay more than 70% of federal
income taxes, while the bottom 50% pay around 3%. What should they
pay?

Not if you include payroll taxes. But you knew that!

Social Security and Medicare have always been intended as government
insurance programs

Things didn't turn out as intended. Payroll taxes are spent just like income taxes are.
.

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