On The War Room, Jim Quinn falsely claimed that most average-income bus drivers, teachers, and autoworkers "don't pay any taxes." In fact, all U.S. workers are required to pay taxes on their wages for Social Security and Medicare, and people in the United States are also subject to excise taxes. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The Quinn statement sounds clearly wrong and ignorant, but if nobody points out that the king has no clothes, perhaps people will not notice.
While the tax table is useful in defining tax peramteers, the human element of the story's thesis is MIA. While this reviewer cannot speak for bus drivers, as someone who taught school for decades, I could certainly summarize the typical teacher's tax situation with this bit of imergery: IF YOU WORK AND GET PAID FOR ONLY THREE WEEKS OF EACH MONTH, IMAGINE VOLUNTEERING THAT ONE REMAINING WEEK EACH MONTH AND HAVING THE GOVERNMENT GET YOUR CHECK FOR THAT WEEK. Essentially, that is the tax code for teachers and probably most city ,state ,and county employees. It is ostensibly what most people fail to understand about teachers. They believe that teachers, fire and police are paid well compared with other fields of work, yet do not ... More »
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