Are you married? Are you single with a dependant and pay 50% or more of your cost of living (rent,utilities). Are you just single? How much do you make a year?

People with a part time job in high school most likely wouldn't pay income tax. Some states it's 16. God you're dumb.

Making enough to pay income tax doesn't mean not producing. I thought you were an economics major....

He's at that stage where he's getting the basics from the lower level courses and thinks that's all there is. That and listening to Michael savage for his economics advice up until this point

Net production is zero or negative. The labor and resources invested in them outweigh the value they create.



I am single and make $20 per hour working 30 hours a week. 52 weeks x $20 x 30 hours = $31k a year.

I love how you say that people in high school most likely won't pay income tax. It is called payroll and yes they do.

You are right, returns are sometimes larger than contributions. However, they are still considered taxpayers.

You consider someone who has their employer withhold income tax but is eligible to claim it all back as someone who pays income tax

Yes and it falls into the statistic I posted.

Why do you think this country's budget deficit is so massive?

The description is: "people who file IRS tax returns with taxable income."

This post was edited by PixileDust on Nov 15 2014 01:41am

I woulda liked him

Yeah you quoting the description just tells me you haven't actually read the methods section, because what that tells me is people who were taxed on their return. Just FYI, you fill out your return at the end of the year. If you pay taxes all year, then file your return and get it all back, that means you didn't have taxable income.

So the solution is meritocracy? I'd like to see meritocracy and technocracy combine into a single unified theory for the future.

The entire monetary system, taxes, etc are outdated and can be replaced and managed better by a technocracy as well.

This post was edited by inkanddagger on Nov 15 2014 02:41am

Unfortunately 'merit' doesn't guarantee survival.

There's no way to reward based on merit because its entirely subjective.

In capitalism the choice is given ordinary citizens in the form of consumer choice, by the producer's perceived merit to them, but most people tend to waste that power.