Why do republicans force the working class to pay a 25-35% tax rate, but the very rich pay 15%?

Because income from salary is taxed at a different rate than capital gains. Most people in that top 400 get the majority of their taxable income from capital gains. Long Term Capital Gains are taxed at 15% until 2011 when they jump to 20% (so much for obama's pledge to not raise taxes).

That is what the wealthy Liberals in Washington, Hollywood, Manhattan and elsewhere pay their accountants for. They are called loopholes. They exist for a very insidious reason.

They are deliberately put into the tax code to control the behavior of people. That is why the tax code is so massive and onerous. If you want to discourage something, tax it.

If you want to encourage something, subsidize it. So, to stop some behaviors, the government imposes confiscatory taxes. To encourage others, they provide loopholes.

This is a sinister abuse of power. It is why we should scrap the entire tax code and replace all forms of income tax with a national sales tax. Then, people who spend less will pay less and people who spend more will pay more.

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