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Originally Posted by sob
Well, since the bottom 50% pay no income taxes, and in fact, often receive EIC funds, it's going to be difficult to verify your statement that "the top 10% of americans pay a smaller percentage of their income than everyone else."
But I'd like to see you try.
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It can't be proven with payroll taxes. This is a made-up argument based on made-up information.
However, the "everyone else" is so vague, that it could be shown to be true depending on how you play with the numbers and depending on which taxes you account for.
Our tax system was never meant to be proportional--that is not the basis of our system. If you want some type of redistributionist system, look somewhere else, ours isn't designed that way - it was designed to financially support the gov't, nothing more.
People making around $30,000 a year or less don't pay squat in payroll taxes.
People making $600,000 a year pay six-figures in payroll taxes (then you add in all their other taxes--not the stuff you and I pay on a daily basis, but stuff like capital gains, etc.)
Simple math tells me that a good proportion (no clue how many) pay a smaller percentage of their payroll taxes than the lucky 10%.