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Originally posted by wonderwench
So what is a fair ratio? According to the Tax Foundation, in 2001, the following income groups paid the corresponding share of total federal income taxes:
- The top 1% - 33.9%
- The top 5% - 53.3%
- The top 10% - 64.9%
- The top 25% - 82.9%
- The top 50% - 96.1%
- The bottom 50% - 3.9%
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The top 50% of taxpayers pay nearly all of the federal income tax. How much more concentrated does it need to be to make you think it is "fair"?
Don't you think it is plausible that as fewer and fewer taxpayers pay for the government we are making the problems of elite control even worse? If The Rich are paying the entire bill, don't you see how they might think they should determine all of the rules by which they operate? All such concentration does is exacerbate class warfare and divisiveness.
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Wow, I never realized that the rich pay so much in taxes. I guess the rich really are getting raked over the coals on April 15th.
http://www.faireconomy.org/research/wealth_charts.html
The graphs are from the Levy Institute at Bard college.
http://www.levy.org/2/index.asp?
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Last edited by nanofever; 06-29-2004 at 08:18 PM..
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