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Originally Posted by pan6467
I truly believe 1 thing needs clarified in your post. I am not flaming I am showing the difference between what you consider the top 1% (which in reality is probably actually .01% of the country) and the true top 1%.
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Yeah, I missed the .0 before my 1. This thread is going back and forth between "top" "true top" and "top 1%" and etc. Complicating things further by interchanging wage earners and asset holders.
I guess I should just point out that I wasn't talking about wage earners and tried to make that clear by explaining why taxes on wages wasn't going to pay the full bill in the long-run (and gibingus) and by claiming that the top bracket doesn't actually even make a wage. You can slap whatever number you want or misplace a decimal--it doesn't bother me because I wasn't debating what porportion of wealth your family owns--just pointing out that no one is going to self-make oneself into the upper crust of this society. For starters, it isn't even possible to get from the bottom to the top in one lifetime because the top group maintians integrity of its class via organizations and books indicating who is fit to marry, do business with, etc.