--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The so-called rich pay almost all of the income taxes in this
country.
> In fact, the top 1% highest-earning Americans pay a whopping 37%
of all
> individual income taxes collected. The top 10% pay 67%. In other
> words, 10% of Americans pay two-thirds of the taxes. Half of all
> taxpayers those in the bottom 50% of earnings account for less
than
> 4% of income tax revenues. This means no matter how taxes are
cut,
> it's nearly impossible for those cuts to primarily benefit lower-
> earning taxpayers. Tax cuts necessarily benefit those who pay the
> overwhelming bulk of the taxes. This simple truth allows the left
to
> attack each and every tax cut proposal on the grounds that it
> disproportionately benefits the rich.
>
> Yet we have exactly the kind of steeply progressive tax system
> championed by Karl Marx.
>
Look at the greatly disproportionate distribution of income in this
country, and you may get a clue why "the Left" thinks "the Right" is
so greedy. Or you can just keep lying with statistics. By the way,
the top 10% own 70% of the wealth, so they damned well better pay
67% of the taxes. The top 1% own 33% of the wealth. That means each
of the top one percent is worth about $15,000,000. :-)
