{"id":21152,"date":"2001-04-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:30:25","slug":"who_pays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2001\/04\/16\/who_pays\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Pays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/whopays.Par.0003.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright\"\/> Federal tax revenues for fiscal year 2000 were $2.025 trillion, and the federal budget was around 1.8 or 1.8 trillion. That\u2019s why we have a surplus. Of that, individual income taxes make up about 50%, corporate income taxes make up 10%, SocSecurity taxes make up 32%, and all the other taxes make up the remaining 8%. <\/line><BR\/>I know a lot of you are going to say, &#8220;See! Corporations are getting away with murder! We need to raise their taxes!&#8221; Before you say that, you have to know that any tax increase imposed on corporations or businesses is just like any other expense to business &#8211; it gets passed along to the consumer in the form of a price increase. You pay, in essence, corporate taxes. Not all of them, but a vast majority of them, as this breakdown indicates. <\/line><BR\/>So the government took in $2,025,000,000,000 in 2000. How much of that would the Bush tax cut give back in it\u2019s first year? $80 billion &#8211; and the Democrats are caterwauling that we cannot afford it! Even if we went the full $80 billion, we\u2019d <strong><emphasize>still<\/emphasize><\/strong> be running a surplus.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal tax revenues for fiscal year 2000 were $2.025 trillion, and the federal budget was around 1.8 or 1.8 trillion. That\u2019s why we have a surplus. 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