sorts of ways.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/prtopincometable.html#TotalAdjustedGross
I'm not sure what you're getting at because according to your numbers, the
bottom 50% only make 13.81% of all income, so how does that refute my
statement?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:10 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: Kerry's record in Senate
>
> --- Marlon Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sam Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 3:47 PM
> > > To: CF-Community
> > > Subject: RE: Kerry's record in Senate
> > >
> > > Top 50% of wage earners pay 96.03% of all federal
> > > income tax. Should it be 100%?
> >
> > Sam, you really should get another source for you
> > information other than
> > rushlimbaugh.com since he likes to present the
> > information a little one
> > sided. If you'd have checked with the IRS stats,
> > you'd realize that the
> > bottom 50% of make less than $28,528/year. I think
> > that takes the air out
> > of that argument.
> >
> I think not.
>
> Top 5% ($127,904 yr) pay 53.25% of all income taxes.
> The top 10% ($92,754 yr) pay 64.89%. The top 25%
> ($56,085 yr) pay 82.9%. The top 50% pay 96.03%. The
> top 1% ($292,913 yr) is paying more than ten times the
> federal income taxes than the bottom 50%! And who
> earns what? The top 1% earns 17.53 (2000: 20.81%) of
> all income. The top 5% earns 31.99 (2000: 35.30%). The
> top 10% earns 43.11% (2000: 46.01%); the top 25% earns
> 65.23% (2000: 67.15%), and the top 50% earns 86.19%
> (2000: 87.01%) of all the income.
>
>
> > > It's a great program that helps seniors pay for
> > drugs.
> > > Why are you against that?
> >
> > Even the senators who voted for it say it isn't
> > great, but it was better
> > than nothing. AARP said that they just wanted
> > something done so they
> > backed it. They said it was far from ideal, but it
> > was the best they could
> > hope for. To me that doesn't sound "great".
> >
> That's a far cry from:
> "Approved the bullshit prescription benefits plan,
> which was nothing more
> than a kick in the balls to all our seniors; many of
> which already served
> for this country (what a way to say thanks!)."
>
> If your one of the seniors saving 10 percent to 20
> percent on prescription, then it's a great plan. It's
> a lot more then the previous plan.
> -sm
>
> > Marlon
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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