--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If elected, both Hillary and Barack say they'll put up the income tax > rates for the rich. > > Yet, according to the statistics at the following site > http://tinyurl.com/3cquum <http://tinyurl.com/3cquum> the rich are, by > ANY objective standard of measurement, already paying far more than > their share. > > Take a look at Table 1 (which, hopefully, I am successful in reproducing > here, below) and look under the column "Group's share of income > tax". The top 1% of taxpayers pay almost 40% of ALL income taxes > collected! The top 10% pay over 70% and the bottom 50% about 3%. >
******** Responsible rich people, like Warren Buffett, don't think they pay too much -- it's only the greedy and their lapdogs like the bush baby who think this way: http://tinyurl.com/4e6n7q
