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Originally posted by khazadman:
Pritchke, just who do you think pay the taxes in this country? It's damn sure not the poor. The top 5% of earners in this country pay more than 53% of taxes collected. Let me put it this way, the bottom 50% pay less than 4% of taxes. So the "filthy rich" as you call them will be paying more taxes if they're filling their pockets. By the way Pritchke, just what do you consider rich?
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Since that top 5% of earners own more than 90% of the nations capital, and therefore benefit the most from all governmental services such as highways, I'd say they're not paying their due by about (90-53=) 37%, using your numbers.
It may hurt (painfully, each payday) to be in a high tax bracket, but I don't try to bulls**t others with the "I pay for it" righteousness -- erm, well I try not to (I do sometimes succumb).