The United States has long been known as the land of opportunity.
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa.It is the one country in the world where, no matter where you came from or what means you were born into, success is always possible. The only constraints on how far you could go were the constraints you put on yourself.Our country’s history is rife with stories of people who went from “rags to riches” in one generation.
One would think our political elites would celebrate these success stories. But the Left seems hellbent on punishing success at every turn. Take the federal income tax, for example. Democratic leaders are fond of saying that the rich must pay their “fair share.” Yet, they never define what that magic number might be. In 2020, the top 1% of taxpayers earned 22.2% of America’s reported income yet paid 42.3% of federal income taxes. The top 50% of all taxpayers paid 97.7% of all federal individual income taxes, with the bottom 50% paying only the remaining 2.3%, per theIt doesn’t stop with taxes.
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