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Originally Posted by stevo
So what? and this proves what? all it says is that the rich were over-taxed prior to the bush tax cuts moreso than the rest of the country.
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Christ, you're confrontational today. Just so you know, I'm in the top part of this little graph. I pull in about $125k per year, and my wife makes about $90k per year. We own a home in the SF Bay Area. Okay? So consider me neutral in all this before you go biting my head off. I'm trying to get all the information before I make a conclusion. That's something to be commended for. Pat me on the back. Do it. You know you want to.
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Originally Posted by stevo
The top 1% still pay 34% of all income taxes
The top half pay 96.5% of all income taxes.
If you are so bent on income equality I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is and send me a check for $33,500, then we'd be equal.
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How am I bent? The numbers Ustwo posted are misleading because the top 1% make sooooo much more than the rest of us. The numbers are taken out of context. My household makes a little over $200k, but the top 1% has people making $10,000,000 per year. That can't compare to people making $30,000. It takes over 300 people making $33,000 a year to match the income of one person who makes $10,000,000 per year.
I'm trying to understand the numbers in context.