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If you exclude payroll taxes AND ALL OTHER TAXES. Then sure you can play with the numbers.

Reality is they are not paying 50% of income tax as social security is a federal tax on income. There are also plenty of regressive taxes. Pay for lunch that's taxed, pay for an accountant free. Guess who spends more on accountants?



Why is Social Security a tax? It's a separately funded program that pays out based on what the person paid into it. It's also capped.


Just because you call a tax an insurance fund or a pogostick, does not mean it's somehow not a tax. Government collects money from X, and hands it out to Y that's a tax.




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