If you go to our facebook page, and informal whole will let you participate in the question were doing this morning. We will show you the results of that hole the morning. It can also tweet us your responses. If you want to email us your , you can do so at cspan. Org. Do you consider the amount of tax have to pay too high, about right, or too low. Are asking you the same thing about your taxes. Facebook is available to you as well, not only to leave your comments, but you can also participate in the poll. It is not scientific, just a responding poll. To those who have artie, though saying to high, 100 71 people. Those hearing about right are 76 people, and though saying their tax bill is too low, about 11 people so far. You can participate in that poll. You can tweet us your responses. You can also send this email. Send us email. Aaron fisher starts it off on twitter. From some of you this morning. William in cypress, texas says his taxes are too high. First of all, william, thanks for calling. Good morning. Caller taxes are just too high. I cant take it anymore. I would like to have a shout out. Host when you say taxes are too high, it is your tax bill for this year, or in general . They take money for a lot of things that they dont really need. I think we should start cutting the budget of the government is targeting the money back to the people. It seems all the might it take for taxes and up going to the people who are rich. Your taxk about burden. Where are you at . No specifics, just generally. Caller im actually retired. My taxes were so high. Other bills for my Daughters College but im still paying for. Host does william from cypress, texas. James is in manassas, virginia, also saying taxes are too high. Good morning. It seems like your tear it just gets worse and worse. Past year we this paid almost 30,000 in taxes and we still owe another 5000. We almost have to have additional moneys taken out just to break even. It seems really crazy. Host what are some of the factors lead up to 35,000 in taxes . Caller that is just payroll tax. My wife works in the Health Care Industry and i work in the driving industry. It is just high payroll tax. I know there are many ways to try to deter some of the high like, but it seems yeartoyear it just gets worse. Times talksshington about why your taxes are too high. They say this were asking you about your tax bill. Our First Respondent saying attacks are too low. Yes, i have a social conscience. Democrat,d liberal progressive minded. I am blessed to have had money in my family. Vote my pocketbook, as they say. I vote my conscience. I believe in social and economic justice. In a country where i can live beautiful chestnut hill, newton, brookline, massachusetts. There people 10 miles away under. Verpasses, homeless the government has a job, and that is the social safety net that lbj and bill clinton and barack obama have continued, and rightly so. I am willing to pay more. In my tax bracket, without giving specifics, there was once a time before the reagan tax cuts, i believe, because this is a little before my time, regarding the history, people in my bracket were paying far higher percentage. The poor getting poorer, the rich are getting richer, the taxes are for needed services for those less fortunate in our country very the last, and i am that a flat tax would be simply unfair. It would punish those who are. Lready destitute and poor you need an even more progressive tax code where i would be paying even more, like Warren Buffett says there is no reason why his secretary should him. Ying more taxes than that is my comment. From that is robert massachusetts who says taxes are too low. The rohrbach report on twitter says that americans are born free. Taxed to death. And itple of opinions comes to tax bill. Were asking this morning if it is too high, too low, are just about right. We turn next to alyssa in north olmsted, ohio. Go ahead, melissa. I have an interesting perspective on this. I grew up in poverty, a single mother with three children. I perpetuated the cycle. I lived in government programs. A government lawsuit myself through college and got myself a career. My son is 11. Fortunately we are on the other side of that. I have done very well. Im any good career position where i will probably be earning just below 100,000. Ive been situation where i needed the tax system to help me provide for my son, i never also been on the side of it where i have learned a very good living. Although my taxes are a lot higher now than they used to be, the same time i looked back and i think i am paying it forward, because somebody else helped me and this is what i need to give back and help other people. Fill yourhen you taxes each year, this is what you think of. What industry are you in . Im in the automotive industry. What aspect if you dont mind my asking . I work in sales. Industry. Ledominated i now have a 401 k that i can fund so i can have a good retirement. My kids have health insurance. We live in a Great Community with Excellent Schools and a good home. For the extra taxes i paid, had a not been able to put myself through school and make sure my son was in daycare was doing that, i would have never been in a position that i am now. Nobody wants to pay taxes, right . Everybody wants to keep the money they earn in their pockets. At the same time there are needs. There are people out there who are struggling. Those programs should be used. I feel like im a testament to that area because they did. I have been off any government assistance for years now and i have done well. Some of these tax dollars benefited me becoming independent so that i could go back and contribute to the system. Host the folks at gallup asked the question, do you regard income tax you have to pay is fair . 54 of those responding saying yes, it is. 41 saying no, it is not. Can make your thoughts known again for the remainder of our time this morning, again, on the phone lines. For those who say it is too low. If he said it is too ralph is up next from washington dc good morning. Engineer,en i was an i was paying 31 . Made 70,000, i paid nor Social Security taxes. At that was a mistake. What people dont know in this country is if you make a certain amount, you dont pay any more Social Security, medicaid and medicare taxes. The little guy does, but the big guy doesnt. And became an investor and made seven figures one year, i was paying 16 in federal taxes. Wealthy guy. Er i get a kick out of it when people say the bottom people are takers. Listen, once again money, the takers are the top one percent and the top five percent in to takers on at the bottom percent, theyre paying Social Security, medicaid, medicare, sales tax, car fees, Everything Else. They are being screwed. It is a guy who makes a top half of one percent said he is paying less than 15 taxes and he is pointing the blame it all the little guys. It is crazy. Host we have conversations here on capitol hill about changing the tax code word with your philosophy in mind, what you think about those efforts . What would you say to those thinking about it here in capitol hill . First of all i agree with the previous caller. A flat tax is idiotic. It sounds simple, but it is going to screw the little guy. The best thing we could do is raise Capital Gains tax 23 years, instead of a gambling tax. Number two, they should have no limit on Social Security. This of cutting it off at a hundred thousand dollars, if you make a Million Dollars, you get of 2by percentage million. That would solve budget issues on medicaid and medicare. We wouldnt have a budget crisis right now. If you look at the National Geographic report, they had some great charts it came out of omb. What you are seeing in the last 30 years is the amount of payroll taxes increasing dramatically. The amount of Corporate Taxes is fallen to the floor. The amount of other taxes, which havesickly federal taxes fallen through the floor even though we are getting more wealthy. That is raw from washington dc. The Heritage Foundation says this about tax a. Day. This is bob gibbs, by the way. Here read his treat as well. Karen buchanan, a viewer is wearing and saying posted last night on facebook, you can see most of the respondents this morning saying that when it comes to their tax will, to hide. Some say just about right and fewer than that, significantly fewer saying it is too low. If you visit our facebook page, not only can you leave a comment, but if you want to participate, you can do so, as well. Facebook. Com cspan. Mark from philadelphia says his taxes are too high. Lets put this in perspective, pedro. We just paid our property taxes. Between federal taxes, payroll and income, state income taxes, city wage taxes. Flat, so if you make a hundred grand, it is foreground of the top. And property taxes. Our net effect of tax rate for my wife and me is 50 . You have to consider all taxes here. You family start off with . 50 on the dollar is kind of ridiculous. My thing is anyone at the 100,000 toel under just pay regular taxes. People like bloomberg and bill gates and those guys, there rate to be 90 . As far as corporations go, i dont have to make the money in ireland, timbuktu, wherever, tax arrest of those guys as if they made the money here. There are folks at Oconnor Davies thats a post state income tax rates across the nation. How i some of them. Again, Oconnor Davies put this information together. It highlights some of the taxes that are paid statewide, as are your mentioned. He sang his estimated tax rate is 50 , when you combine this can of factors, may be effective as enter textiles as well, but you can do federal, state, local. If you think it is too low or too high, give us your opinion. Low is what sean thinks. He is in west virginia. Hike, sean. What you think it is too low . Caller i think it is too low for the small man and the wealthy people like bill gates. The future caller say it is not even a flat tax is not going to be fair to the small man. I would just like to say this to you republicans, middleclass and poor. If paul ryans budget passes, if now, you youre poor better pay tension to a politicians are doing. You may be one of those people who has not taken care of tax issues. Jeffrey of from saying if you or even a small amount of aris, it is a different matter when it comes to today. Their heavy penalties for not finding for not filing. Theres a five percent charge for the payment you fail to deliver on time. That is cap the maximum penalty of 25 . From warren, ohio, this is david, who thinks when it comes taxes is just about right for. Right i only say about given the current system. People have to realize, government cost money. My clean water and transportation and law enforcement, you on all the things and you have to pay for it. Why should organizations like nascar get a special tax break . Adjusted tax rate for corporate entities, is that what youre saying . Of course. These lapel pin patriots make me sick. They dont want to support a government, but yet theyre patriots and yet we have worked veterans and need help. Where was the courage and the political will in that case . E could have cut the deficit the will is not there. It makes me sick. No wonder tom coburn is taking a bag and leaving. Andrew, good morning from alexandria virginia. Also, when it comes taxes, it is about right. Things considered, the taxes are about right. I would like to see a flat tax. I think that would be a good thing. I would like to see Corporate Tax abolished. I would like to see a flat tax on all income, whether it be ordinary earned income and Capital Gains. I would like to see the savings not be taxed. I think that would be more fair. He would have double taxation. Everyone would be paying a fair percentage of all their income, no matter where it came from. I think that would be a good thing. I think one of our viewers says when it comes to that, the lower income would be affected more than the other brackets. You think that would be true . Caller if someone makes 10,000 a year, lets say the flat texas 10 . I think it would be fair. To bewhat led you convinced that that type of texas elizabeth system . I think all income, Capital Gains and ordinary wages, earned income, should be taxed at that same rate. That would cover all the needs of the government. I think when Capital Gains are taxed at a different rate, that is when you have in equity. Saying,m from twitter how about no income taxes for two stories 50,000 . Taking a look at republican efforts. This is the washington theres another story in usa today if you go to this headline. Cornelius, good morning from virginia. His taxes are too high. Good morning. Gone. K he is lets go to bill from reading, pennsylvania. Caller listen, i just came from europe. Are very talks about the rich, the rich, the rich. Ok . I get 12,000 a year from Social Security. High, if itre so wasnt for the rich, the poor want to be poor. It or want to work, they let government take care of them. They want government to pay their bills. Give them a card, give them food stamps. That is where we are going wrong. If it but the flat tax for all americans, we would have a Better Society and a healthy one. You can pay, even tax. If a guy makes 200,000 and pay 17 , he will pay that. Is 12,000, he will pay that. The whole idea is the American People dont understand that the europeans are starving right now because all the rich people left their and they left them stuck because they aint got no jobs. Dont criticize the rich. The government is the problem. Not the rich. Says taxes are too high. She is from Washington State. Good morning. Thank you, im sorry. Thank you for taking my call. Host go ahead and say what you have to say. If you listen to the tv therell be a short delay. I do thinkaller taxes are too high. For variety of reasons there too high. Ive been listening to most of the listeners us morning and i agree and disagree with a lot that they have to say. The code iss that very complex. It has advantages and disadvantages for lots of people. The man from massachusetts it says he is a proud liberal crack and he has a social conscience, he doesnt have a corner on that. I dont think there is an American Life it doesnt have a social conscience, whether you are a libertarian or a democrat. You take some people and you dont know where it is, you cant account for it, you are , by talking about the gop the way, im not a republican, know theonstant do you drum about how horrible people are in that it takes a much and that they dont give back heard a lot of wealthy americans to give a lot of money. If you want to talk about the corporations that are making people, that are providing jobs so people can have a social safety net, theres a whole testspectrum just to people to death in c the fraud and waste going on every single day, coming of congress, it is just unbelievable. Maybe, if we would all take a look at it and say, we need to do better. It is matter what side theyre on, we need to pull back. The best we can with the money we have and then take it from there. But just to say that one group is horrible and that they need to pay more taxes so people can have more, is just a very ignorant statement. Thank you. A lot of papers dedicated stores today. Take a look at the boston bombings a year ago. This is New York Times. The headline says that Court Documents a snippet of a phone conversation the Vice President joe biden will be attending attribute for those affected by the tragic events of what occurred on april 15 at 13. That would take place in boston. There will be traveling today to participate in that. Tim from schaumburg, illinois says taxes are too high. Good morning. I wanted to make two comments on that. Not speaking in terms of something income tax rate than at him income, part of my oldest son starting college, our families number one expense over the course of the year was your federalve income tax, your federal payroll taxes, you have your state taxes and your real estate tax. You have your sales tax and a gasoline tax and all those other taxes that people pay their not even aware of the fact that theyre they are paying. Overall, collectively, i dont think that taxes should be the largest component of my familys annual budget. The crib lay had was with your selection of categories. I dont mind paying the taxes that i do pay, but what frustrates me more than anything is the complexity and amount of time that i have to spend guring out how much money i owe. Host how long does it take you . I sit it on my own, now every year i spent hundred bucks to buy tax software. The time ive collected all the paperwork and gone through everything, i would say for our a full daysast efforts. Theres a 10 hour day. Unfortunately, using tax software, we are able to import a lot of things electronically, things are used to have to do manic manually. Ill know how many people are willing to go out and buy the software. I assume everyone has a computer. The software isnt cheap. It is still a significant amount of time. Your taxpayerhad advocate on his show a couple years ago. That person was saying that americans spend its billion hours. Seg thank you for the an 6 billion hours for estimate the taxpayers and businesses in the amount they spend as far as years to comply with that, the tax code being about 4 Million Words long and 4700 changes to the code since 2001. Ohiois up next, lakewood lakewood, ohio. Good morning. This is just another fraud that the right wing is put on us. Kaman, you guys. Who on the right side of america is paying the full percentage of taxes that are owed . Nobody is. Is like the International Taxes that people bring back to this country. We are lost in this country when it comes to paying your fair share. Ecome wealthy individuals and yet they leave the rest behind . All you have to do is look at the minimum wage. We have lost the integrity and values in this country, the principles of we were founded on. I reject any idea that the right else fox news, or anyb