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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The US Debt is 36 trillion and if you divide that by the number of people in the US (340M), that’s just $105 per person.   Of course that includes kids and the poor, but I’d be happy to give a one time contribution of $420 dollars to pay down the debt.  And I’d be willing to double or triple that to cover other families.

Why can’t we have a massive national fundraiser to deal with the debt problem and start with a clean slate budget-wise?  Also, politicians could donate any campaign surpluses to pay off debt.  The mega rich could donate large sums as well.

There should be a mechanism to ensure any donated dollars would go directly to paying off the national debt.

Isn’t this doable?
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It is called Tax Day, April 15. And the billionaires who benefited from the infrastructure and research that created the conditions for them to become billionaires, should all pay their fair share.[/quote]

Actually,  half the country that pays no income taxes should start paying their fair share, and not skating over others all the time.[/quote]

Talk to republicans about that.  They just passed a bill with even more dumb ideas and gimmicks.

You’re a senior? You get $4k more
You’re a waiter? You don’t pay tax on tips!
You rely heavily on overtime? You don’t pay tax on overtime! 
You had a baby? Here’s a $1000 Trump account.

Mainly this Will mean the wealthy will figure out how to reclassify  their income as tips or overtime but it will also mean that some protected groups of low income people will pay even in less in taxes than other low income people.

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I'm sorry, but the top 50 percent of tax payers pay 97% of the total tax burden, today.

[b]The bottom 50 percent pay the remaining 3%.  That's just a fact.[/quote][/b]

Because they don’t make enough money.[/quote]

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