Quote Originally Posted by waterdog101 View Post
if for some reason, you really believe that the top 1% pay " ALL " the taxes, read this and educate yourself on how the tax system works for the super rich, then take another look at the idiot politician, you were referring to, and ask yourself, could I have been wrong about him..

http://www.americansfortaxfairness.o...thy-americans/
And yet you still don't GET it..........

Here are the ******** points from your left leaning post.......

The richest 1% of Americans own 35% of the nation’s wealth. The bottom 80% own just 11% of the nation’s wealth.

In the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was booming, the wealthiest Americans paid a top income tax rate of 91%. Today, the top rate is 43.4%.

The richest 1% pay an effective federal income tax rate of 24.7% in 2014; someone making an average of $75,000 is paying a 19.7% rate.

The average federal income tax rate of the richest 400 Americans was just 20 percent in 2009.

Taxing investment income at a much lower rate than salaries and wages are taxed loses $1.3 trillion over 10 years.

1,470 households reported income of more than $1 million in 2009 but paid zero federal income taxes on it.

CEOs of major corporations earn nearly 300 times more than an average worker.
30 percent of income inequality is due to unfair taxes and budget cuts to services and benefits.

The largest contributor to increasing income inequality has been changes in income from capital gains and dividends.

Here is information JUST about the TAXES paid, and who pays them:


The top 1% pays a gigantic amount of the federal tax burden........and the top 5% pays more than all the other income brackets combined.

Here are the details:

The top 1% pays 39% of all taxes
The top 5% pays 59% of all taxes
The top 10% pays 70% of all taxes
The top 25% pays 86% of all taxes
The top 50% pays 98% of all taxes.


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Keep trying though.........