Rwingers are STUCK on STUPID! They don't even know what the hell they are protesting!

[Blue_Roses]

These idiots are indeed, stuck on stupid. This article explains how taxes will actually be lower, yes, LOWER this year compared to last year.:eyes:

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Tax Tea Party Time?
Bruce Bartlett, 04.10.09, 12:00 AM EDT
Higher taxes may not be as bad as they seem.


Next week is April 15, the day when most Americans have to file their federal income tax returns. To protest the allegedly high level of taxation in the United States, various right-wing groups are organizing tea parties around the country in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party of 1773.

The irony of these protests is that federal revenues as a share of the gross domestic product will be lower this year than any year since 1950. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government will take only 15.5% of GDP in taxes this year, compared to 17.7% last year, 18.8% in 2007 and 20.9% in 2000.


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The truth is that the U.S. is a relatively low-tax country no matter how you slice the data. The following tables illustrate this fact by comparing the U.S. to other members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based research organization.

As Table 1 shows, total taxation (federal, state and local) amounted to 28% of the GDP in the U.S. in 2006. Only four of the 30 OECD countries had a lower tax ratio. Taxes averaged 35.9% for the OECD as a whole and 38% in Europe. Citizens of Denmark and Sweden paid very close to 50% of their total income in taxes.

Table 1: Total Taxes as a Share of GDP, 2006

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There's a stronger case for the U.S. being a high tax country when looking at the top statutory tax rate on labor income. The OECD calculated the U.S. rate at 41.4% in 2007. As Table 2 shows, this put America right in the middle of the distribution despite a reduction in the top rate from 46.7% in 2000. The reason is that 19 OECD countries have reduced their top rate since 2000; only 3 have increased it.

Of course, the top rate applies only to those with very high incomes. According to the OECD, one would need to make almost 9 times the average worker's wage to pay the top rate in the U.S. In most OECD countries one hits the top rate at an income barely above that of the average worker, which puts workers in other countries in much higher tax brackets than those in the U.S.

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http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/09/tea-party-taxes-opinions-columnists-bartlett.html

[firedupdem]

1. K&R n/t

[Downtown Hound]

2. They're protesting the fact that they lost the election

Everything else they do is mere cosmetics.

[AwakeAtLast]

6. Yup, that's the real agenda.

[Kaleko]

3. They're throwing temper tantrums to regain the power they feel entitled to wield.

Infantile tyrants, one and all.

We get to be the adults and either laugh at their antics or ignore them.

[The Wizard]

4. No one care what republicans think.

They've been marginalized by their own actions. There are no main stream Republicans. They are the party of the unhinged on the fringe.

[1776Forever]

5. If you have listened to these idiots you can see gun control is the main issue for them.

This is the real hot button issue to these fanatics. I am going to be interested to see if they can keep it all as a peaceful protest or not.

Check this youtube video out on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXGrQ9uiLSo