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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 08:06 PM Apr 2022

GOP banker spends $11 million on his campaign - and whines the middle class don't pay enough taxes:

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GOP banker spends $11 million on his campaign — and whines the middle class don’t pay enough taxes: report

By Matthew Chapman
Published April 08, 2022

On Friday, The Washington Post reported that newly unearthed footage from a media event last fall shows Mike Gibbons, a candidate for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio, complained that the middle class does not pay enough in taxes.

“The top 20 percent of earners in the United States pay 82 percent of federal income tax — and, if you do the math, and 45 percent to 50 percent don’t pay any income tax, you can see the middle class is not really paying any kind of a fair share, depending on how you want to define it,” said Gibbons in the video. He added that the rich already pay too much, saying, "How much of the total tax bill can a very small percentage of the nation pay and still be a democracy?"

Gibbons, a wealthy investment banker, has largely self-funded his own campaign, putting $11.4 million of his own money into the effort, according to The Columbus Dispatch. He has raised less than $1 million from other donors.

https://www.rawstory.com/mike-gibbons-ohio-senate/

So in other words this a***ole would vote for the republican fraudster Ric Scotts plan on how to fuck Americans out of their Social Security and Medicare....and give to who exactly, put it in a 401k plan .........

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GOP banker spends $11 million on his campaign - and whines the middle class don't pay enough taxes: (Original Post) turbinetree Apr 2022 OP
Hey Gibbons you disgusting POS Diamond_Dog Apr 2022 #1
Take all taxes and US taxation is not progressive Cicada Apr 2022 #2

Diamond_Dog

(32,000 posts)
1. Hey Gibbons you disgusting POS
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 08:14 PM
Apr 2022

How about all the millionaires and billionaires who pay zero income tax, you ignorant phony.. Go kiss trumps ass since that’s what you love to do most.

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
2. Take all taxes and US taxation is not progressive
Fri Apr 8, 2022, 09:56 PM
Apr 2022

The rich pay more of the federal income tax. But what percent of their income do they pay for sales tax, gas tax, booze tax, car tax, social security and Medicare tax? If you consider all taxes the rate of tax is pretty flat across income. That the US has a progressive tax system, with the rich paying a higher percentage, is not true.

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