What is "Everyone Pays Their Fair Share"

I think a flat tax no matter what your income. Ten percent across the board. I guarantee that people would pay much better attention to the way politicians are spending our money. I find it funny (in a sad way) that every body screaming that the rich need to pay more, don't even question what Congress is doing with all of the money they already collect. People should be disgusted at the stupid things that they seems to think they should put our hard earned dollars into.

I think the whoe tax system need revamped. Lets face it, we should ALL have to pay taxes regardless of how little we make. It frustates me when people colloct money from the government and feel they are entileted to with no sense of responsiblity.

I am on disability income and self-employed. I also get food stamps and Medicaid, I would be willing to surrender Medicaid if I could get on regular insurance and have all my impairment related needs met. You may not know that for every two dollars away in I earn in employment they take $1 of my disability money. I think earned income and interest or investment value should be counted. This will allow people to avoid falling below the "floor" President Obama mentioned in the debate. I also don't think school grants, scholarships, or student loans should be counted as that tax will not allow some people to attend college and better themselves. I would be willing to pay 25% of my total earned income in taxes to help my country. It's the least I can do.

Everyone should pay 5% in taxes and everything above should be included.

i really couldn't give you a good answer since it would be off the top of my head. one of the best ways i can think of for people to pay their fair share would be to close all the loopholes and have a flat tax. i feel the democrats think were naive by talking about taxing the rich so much. do they think thats all we care about?.

there are ways where everyone can pay their fair share of what they earn to the government which is expected to return whatever the citizens pay through social services and infrastructure. i have no problem with paying my dues but i have to feel that my payment is somehow returning to me though services and other goods.

It is hard to come up with really good percentages. But one that I sorta remember is that something like 1% of the people pay something like 99% of the taxes; for some of these people the percent of their income that they pay may be lower than people who make a lot less but the amount they pay is tremendously higher. I am in no way to be considered rich; my total income is much less than many very common jobs that people hold, especially in say school administration and things like that. A large part of my income is from dividends because when I had a job, I have been unemployed for over 20 years, I saved and invested. So for those over 20 years, I never took a penny of unemployment and lived off of my investments, mainly from dividends. If Obama got his way to raise taxes on people with incomes over $250,000($200,000 if single), it would not affect me as long as the current tax rates on dividends and capital gains, of which I have had few for some time but have had loses instead. The problem with taxing dividends is that in many cases the money that people have saved and risked in investments is being taxed again after they have paid taxes on it when earned. The other thing is that the companies paying out the dividend have already paid taxes on their earnings from which the dividends are paid; so there is a lot of double taxation. So what is a fair share? The present state of things and what the Democrats want to be even more is as follows: If one saves and invests, one is punished for having common sense and living withing their means. Those who are like the government and spend above their means and do not save and invest get a free ride.

I can think of only one way for everyone to pay their fair share, The Fair Tax, HR 25.

I'll be honest about the whole thing and say that I have absolutely no idea.