The president-elect's infrastructure plan: handouts to his billionaire buddies

[RINO Tom]

Makes me wonder why anyone other than the rich EVER votes Republican. Theirs is the same old story. Rob from the poor and give to the rich. Yawn.

The rich are the ones who pay the taxes to begin with.

Yes, and pay less overall than the middle class and the poor.

I mean, that's just not true.

[RINO Tom]

Makes me wonder why anyone other than the rich EVER votes Republican. Theirs is the same old story. Rob from the poor and give to the rich. Yawn.

The rich are the ones who pay the taxes to begin with.

Yes, and pay less overall than the middle class and the poor.

I mean, that's just not true.

Then it seems like your deluting yourself. Do Republicans seriously not do research about their own party? They care about their rich donors, no one else.

What "research" haven't I done?  Poor Americans do not pay more in taxes than (what we have decided are) rich Americans, that's literally a false statement.

[RINO Tom]

"hand out $137 billion worth of tax credits to private businesses"

What Donald is doing is saying that this money is better in the hands of business to create jobs and stimulate the economy rather than throw it into the government kitty.

There is a balance, and this government clearly thinks that business has been over-regulated and taxed to death. This ultimately hurts employment.

Try starting a company and employing one person. Just try it and see how long you last. It's not until you have to pay someone's wages that you truly understand how limiting over-regulation and high tax rates kill you as a business person.

They know, they just don't care.

[RINO Tom]

Makes me wonder why anyone other than the rich EVER votes Republican. Theirs is the same old story. Rob from the poor and give to the rich. Yawn.

The rich are the ones who pay the taxes to begin with.

Yes, and pay less overall than the middle class and the poor.

I mean, that's just not true.

Then it seems like your deluting yourself. Do Republicans seriously not do research about their own party? They care about their rich donors, no one else.

What "research" haven't I done?  Poor Americans do not pay more in taxes than (what we have decided are) rich Americans, that's literally a false statement.

I think he means the poor pay more in taxes as a proportion of their total capital than the rich.

Correct, the poor and middle class pay a higher proportion of their income in taxes.

Don't a lot of them not even have to pay income taxes?  Even if they are only paying their state income taxes and the wealthy are taking advantage of loopholes, I struggle to see how that math evens out.

[RINO Tom]

Makes me wonder why anyone other than the rich EVER votes Republican. Theirs is the same old story. Rob from the poor and give to the rich. Yawn.

The rich are the ones who pay the taxes to begin with.

Yes, and pay less overall than the middle class and the poor.

I mean, that's just not true.

Then it seems like your deluting yourself. Do Republicans seriously not do research about their own party? They care about their rich donors, no one else.

What "research" haven't I done?  Poor Americans do not pay more in taxes than (what we have decided are) rich Americans, that's literally a false statement.

I think he means the poor pay more in taxes as a proportion of their total capital than the rich.

Correct, the poor and middle class pay a higher proportion of their income in taxes.

Don't a lot of them not even have to pay income taxes?  Even if they are only paying their state income taxes and the wealthy are taking advantage of loopholes, I struggle to see how that math evens out.

He referred to tax burden as a percentage of income, not income taxes.

I mean, I guess for some the top bracket of income couldn't catch up enough to get the effective rate that high, but I still fail to see how this works.  There are tons of people - almost all of them "poor" - who pay nothing at all.  How are they paying a higher percent of their income?