Can someone supporting McCain please explain something to me.

Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:

American's are highly taxed.

Comparing Federal rates from nation to nation is meaningless. Unlike Europe we have a slew of state taxes.

Also American property taxes are much, much higher than Europe. Let's not even bring up gasoline though.......
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Good points. TN,FLA has no icome tax;
but TN has a big food /retail tax of over 10%.But no tax on services, like a legal tax.

TN gives tax breaks to farm supplies[no sales tax on seeds].

But of course you get more tax revenue , when you cut taxes. Everybody went accross the state line to buy tobacco, because TN has big cig/tobacco taxes.

:cool: And of course many larger cities have lost revenue on their high RE taxes/excessive gov control; people simply move to the county, so lower taxes help the county, just as higher city property taxes cut [lowered] the city revenue.
 
Quote from smilingsynic:

Both Democrats and Republicans LOVE to spend.

Democrats like spending on bloated and often inefficient domestic programs, and Republicans like spending on bloated and inefficient military programs.

But Republican presidents have produced red ink, whereas Democratic presidents like Clinton have not.

The main reason is because Republicans do not support increasing taxes on the upper 2%, because outside of the South, that is their base. Democrats have less fear about raising taxes on that upper 2%, because that is not their base.
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The top 10% of earners pay over 70% of all income taxes. The bottom 50% pay just under 3% of all income taxes.

Not only that, but 43 million americans with postive AGI pay no income taxes and some even receive "refunds".

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/250.html
 
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