Why aren't people pointing out the obvious about who pays taxes?

Also, to add in is that many full time jobs have now gone to part time with no benefits or they no longer exist. I barely make enough right now to pay taxes. Just in the poverty line rather than welfare line which hurts too because I don't get benefits of stamps for food and live practically on a couple hundred dollars per month.

Out of all the countries in the world, we have more high paying jobs here, than nearly anywhere else. Factory jobs have naturally declined because factories are producing more goods with fewer people, which benefits everyone. The fact is, Democrats do make people dependent on the government. And no, you are flat out wrong. Jobs are not going to other countries because of greed. The fact you think this shows you have never talked to a single person in business. The reason why jobs go overseas is because if they don't, they'll go out of business completely. Would you rather have a few jobs lost and the company saved, or everyone losing their jobs?

"Why don't people look at all of the high paying factory jobs that have disappeared, replaced by lower paying Wal Mart jobs. Older workers who didn't need a college degree to get a high paying job, are now struggling." Hey, I hate progress as much as you do... Seriously, things change. More jobs do require college degrees and the number of people getting college degrees has risen exponentially over the years. There was a time when you could rise to the top through hard work and experience and now the way to the top is through a college degree. But that's not a political problem, that's a change in the basic industries of the nation and a reflection of the growing number of people in the job market with secondary education. When people point out that nearly 50% of Americans don't pay any taxes, it isn't because they really wish they did. It's to show how silly it is to claim that the wealthy aren't paying their share. When you consider more than 70% of all tax revenues to be less than the fair share of about 1% of the population, you've got math problems. Hey, that's funny... math problems. Get it?

Have you thought why they went over seas? Why pay someone 100 an hour with the hourly wage and benefits when they can get the same work for 50 an hour. Or why pay a higher tax when you can pay next to no tax. Why do people think that corporations are out there are to be a charitable company and not make any money. No one opens a business to make no profit. Making a profit is what owning a business is about. You actually think by creating a higher tax on the wealthy is going to solve our problems? There is not enough of the 1% and then it trickles down to the middle class anyway, and after the middle class gets hit then it goes to the lower class. We have to quit spending so much money we do not have. We need people to get off of welfare completely and to start working, whether they get the refund at the end of the year or not they are still paying in taxes. My husband and I got everything back due to my going to school and our three kids. We get no help from the government besides my student loans which I intend to pay off every penny. It is those who are irresponsible with money, not paying their debt and then complain that they are in debt. We need to educate people about not living outside their means. You can have a 50K year job and live in a 150K house.It is time for the citizens of this country and our government to be fiscally responsible.

This all rediculousness. I agree with the initial conclusion. Let's stick to that, there's clearly a problem with incomes if most of the people aren't paying taxes, I have a college degree and worked with a bunch of other college grads who are scraping by with the same jobs they did through college to finish paying of school. The companies that were failing did little if any better by exporting jobs, were still in a crisis partly due to price driven inflation when gas prices skyrocketed. All it takes for another recession is for gas to go up again, and it will be much much worse. The unemployment rate is only down because it only reflects how many people are getting unemployment. It's a very poor indicator of the job market. Yada yada yada. If a company can make 10,000,000,000 in profits and they employ 10,000 people at 30,000 each, that means their total labor cost was all of 300,000,000 a fraction of their profit margin. Stew on that.

So what is the democrats answer...Raise the taxes on the companies the are still here and drive the away too? You are missing one BIG point here. The right wingers you mention here also want the government to be smaller and spend less so there will not need to be as much taxes on the 50% that does pay taxes. Then these businesses that are still here can grow and produce more of these jobs and create the jobs you are talking about. So then you guys can make more money and have the privilege of paying taxes, too.

If you really want to pay taxes, I'm sure the government would take your money. Or become self employed. You will pay taxes, believe me.

How does that mean the middle class is disappearing? What in your world qualifies someone as middle class? For a married couple with 3 kids $60,000 isn't really that much money. That's two parents, each making $30,000 per year. Wages aren't the problem, cost of living is the problem. The government with all their ridiculous costs and regulations have made running a business very expensive which, in turn, has caused businesses to either raise the costs of goods and services, or outsource to keep costs low. You know what one of those costs is? Minimum wage employees. Businesses are now required to pay unskilled 16 year olds $7.25/hour. That's a lot of money for people whose primary skill is saying "paper or plastic?" or "Would you like fries with that?" Since minimum wage employees are more numerous than people at higher levels, raising minimum wage hits the budget hard, and makes it more difficult to raise the wages of higher level employees who actually have marketable skills. Democrats operate under this delusion that if they raise the minimum wage, everyone benefits. In reality only one group benefits, people making minimum wage.