| Re: "Humans 'very likely' making earth warmer" is wrong
"Joe Fischer" <joe@westpointracing.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, "no spam" <no@spam.net> wrote:
>
>>Fourth, there is no way the SS system will last much longer. When it
>>reaches the point where you have just 2 or 3 workers to support one SS
>>recipient AND welfare AND the rest of the other government expenses they
>>will just say 'screw this'.
>
> Fortunately there are also self employed paying
> into social security. There are a very large number
> of people who do pay SS withholding taxes, but they
> effectively contribute nothing because they get a tax
> credit for having kids.
>
>>There is already a fairly large 'under the
>>table' and barter economy going out there that is not taxed now. How
>>large
>>do you thing its going to get when 50+% of wages are going to taxes?
>
> It is already 50+ for many people, for very successful
> self employed, the tax rate is 33 percent on the amount over
> a certain amount, and the self employment SS taxes are
> 15.3 percent, plus local and state income tax and sales
> tax on some things and real estate tax and personal
> property tax.
The very succesful self employed have smart accountants and pay less tax as
a percentage of income than joe public.
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