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Entry: Greenspan's Gambits Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/greenspans_gambits#5502 Post contents: MSS sez: "Joe arrives at his 15.3% figure by combining the employer’s half with the employee’s...Joe, I hope you have someone competent prepare your tax returns, since you don’t seem to understand taxation very well." No, the individual payroll taxes are 15.3%. The links I provided pretty much prove that your statement is rot. They also prove that when payroll taxes are put into the tax analysis, it is the middle class that bears the burden, and not the rich, who have a free ride. Quoting the "Tax Foundation" as an authoritative source on the burden of taxes on the American citizen is like quoting Marx to explain collectivization. What is clearly of note here, is that your concern over the "tyranny" of taxation is quite selective. You are not against ALL taxes, only the progressive income tax that burdens the rich. Consequently, we see you exactly what you are---a pimp for the Park Avenue set, the trust fund babies, the CEO classes. What delights me about our little exchange is that YOU illustrate exactly what I've been saying about "libertarians", that all their arguments about "freedom" are really so much rant and rave, ideological nonsense spouted by the likes of Dicky Armey or Neuter Gingrich or Alan Greenspan, to give those who have the most, a little more. Sent at: 2008 11 22