the separation of sosh security and medicare taxes from income taxes is a cunard, a tax is still a tax no matter which pocket the government places the money in. Not in the way you framed though, the wealthy not only pay more in payroll taxes they pay more in almost every tax imaginable.
federal income taxes, state income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, payroll taxes, excise taxes, luxury taxes, capital gains taxes, dividend taxes and that's not all of them.
are you any less robbed if the robber actually buys bread or pampers with your money instead of a twump rock and some smokes? Absolutely, if I have less taxes to pay the the other guy!
the $175 k cap is not a $175k contribution cap it is a cap on wages subject to sosh security.Exactly, that is what i meant when I said it is four times higher than the average wage earner contributes, I should have been more specific on that one. any money OVER $175k per annum is not subject to the sosh security tax, nor medicare. this exempts most of the actual wages of the upper crust, and ALL capital gains are untouched by the meandering fingers of sosh security. only the poor are truely subject to the predation of FDR's folly.
when totaling government revenues, payroll taxes (sosh security and medicare, unemployment insurance etc...) make up just under 60% of federal revenue income, capital gains and excise taxes make up most of the remainder. I believe you have this backwards, capital gains are lumped into federal income tax revenue. since these taxes fall upon the working man, not the moneyed class this is where i disagree with you, clearly you mean the moneyed class pay more but the poor feel it more! the inescapable conclusion is that the working class is victimized by washington's deranged tax schemes. the middle class and upper crust are not feeling the squeeze, but they scream bloody murder at every pinch.
romney pretends to not understand that all taxes ar eventually paid by the last guy to get left with the bill, while barry seotoro pretends that handing the bill to the fat cats will somehow prevent them from ducking out on the check.