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Originally Posted by guy44
Actually, here's the way it works in the U.S.:
There's a $100 bill. The poorest guys pay nothing. The middle guys pay a progressively larger amount. The richest guy's bill comes to $59. But every year, he bribes the city administrator a relatively small amount to ensure the bartender will get to keep his alcohol license, and return the richest customer doesn't have to pay the bartender his portion of the bill. But that still leaves a $41 tab. So the other 9 guys, drunk and not wanting to ruin the end of a perfectly good night, divvy that tab up amongst them.
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, conservatives and supply-siders everywhere, is how our tax system works.
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While the scenario of a rich guy playing the system does without a doubt happen, it certainly doesn't happen enough to make it an overlying principle of how our tax system works.
% of money paid by taxes is by definition a function of money actually received. Of the money that the government receives, the lion share of it comes from the pocket books of the wealthy.
Try to divert attention all you want, the beer analogy describes exactly what is happening.