Belly35 wrote:
derek bomar wrote:
92% of tea party people probably don't know what socialism is
When it came to questions of who are tea party members, the poll found that 50 percent described themselves as “middle class” and 26 percent described themselves as “working class.” Only 29 percent of tea partiers do not have at least some college education, a figure that far outpaces the rest of the country, of which 47 percent have no college education. We will not even go down the road of ACORN membership .....
With that TeaParty 29% some college they know more about socialism them you think .....
Well, let's suppose we take those numbers at face value...with 50% identified as middle class...considering that under the current 1986 internal revenue code the middle and lower class receives better than consumption tax treatment in many respects and are effectively living under a consumption tax...(401k's, personal exemptions diffused from income tax norms, IRA's, the home mortgage interest deduction, non-recognition of home sale gain, etc.) (as evidenced by the recent media coverage of the 2009 report that only 47% of households pay federal income tax)....it's probably a fair assessment that that 76% of tea partiers pay little to no federal income tax....if we take those numbers at face value.
Even if we were to place 25% of those who identify as middle class in the Upper middle class/professional managerial class (It's almost certainly much less)...51% of tea partiers probably pay zero federal income tax.
Hence, it seems to me that it begs the question...if those statistics are taken at face value....why are they even associated with a group that was founded on the principle of protesting federal income tax when it would appear the majority of them likely pay little to zero?
