Lets break this up into pieces shall we?
If I'm paying 25%-33% in taxes they should be paying at least that much if not more. But typically they pay less than 20% Sorry, but that ain't right.
You can thank the 16th amendment for that one. Since the US taxes on what people earn, not what they worth or what spend (for the part, state sales taxes pale in comparison to the current income taxes for both state and federal), of course your income taxes decrease with the larger your gross worth is, as you are no longer "earning" money, but living on investments and what not. As for it not being right, people are just reacting to what the tax code promotes. Those people who have large incomes and not wealth get nailed. Especially if you get the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax. So in summary you are confusing wealth and income, which are taxed quite differently in the US.
Large corporations pay less than 5% of their profits in taxes.
Sigh. Ok, first off, corporations DO NOT PAY TAXES. A tax on a corporation only means that the corporation will either raise prices to the consumers who actually pays for it, or to a lesser extent they increase their efficiency (usually by removing personal to make up for the increased tax burden). So in essence, higher corporate taxes effectively become a regressive tax that unduly affects the poor in society as the increased costs affect them the most. So go ahead, justify you desire to hurt the poor.
And you know why 47% of people owed no federal income taxes in 2009? Because they were either broke or out of a job.
Lets wildly come up with numbers that in no way can be true shall we?. So you are saying that 47% of people in 2009 lost their jobs or had no appreciable income? I call BS and that is the kind of BS that pisses me off. Statistically it is untrue, and even for those who are broke, many of those did it to themselves by not being responsible adults.
Of course this doesn't take into account how poorer people pay a significantly higher percentage of payroll taxes than everyone else, or how when you overtax people who already struggle to make ends meet they have zero income to contribute back to our economy. But yeah, let's just overlook that.
But you just said they don't pay taxes? Either they pay taxes and or they have zero tax liability and many receive out and out payments from the federal government who takes the money from other people who do pay in more than they get back. So choose which on it is please.
I don't mind that the poor pay less (or nothing), there is only so much you can wring from a stone. But when you're making billions and contributing a tiny percentage of that, and then COMPLAINING it's too much, sorry, that I can't tolerate
Personally, I can almost concur with the first sentence, however I feel everyone should at least pay something so that they know that they are contributing, paying nothing and getting benefits sets up a nasty expectation that you have a right to someone else stuff. As for the higher payroll taxes, look at Social Security the majority of that. It is always wonderful to be FORCED to pay for a program that would be considered a felony and get people jail time if the private sector tried to run something like it. People have tried to fix it, but every attempt has been shot down so far to kill this horribly mutated monster.
If you're going to use this country to become disgustingly wealthy at least have the common decency to pay it forward. But there is no decency in being rich. All they care about is getting richer, and they don't care who gets fucked as long as the money keeps rolling in. It's vile, and I really don't think We the People aren't going to put up with it for much longer.
And now we get to the crux of the matter. You have issues with people who have more money than you, and think that YOU deserve a portion of what they have. So in essence, you believe you own a bit of these people, did we not get rid of that a while back? All in all, you hate the idea that someone is more successful than you are and feel that they need to be punished for being more successful than you. Thats fine, such is your right, but if you are going to argue about it, at least let it be known at the beginning of your argument not at the end.