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charlesju on Sept 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Wealthiest 5% Grabbed Most of the America’s Ga...

There are a lot of stats everywhere. Here is one I like. The top 1% pays for 38% of all taxes. The top 10% pays 70%. If I showed you this stat, you would lean on taxing the poor more, but that isn't right either. Everyone should look at the problem in aggregate and decide for themselves what is fair for our system as opposed to analyzing individual stats and extrapolated analysis from that alone.

http://ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html

danssig on Sept 19, 2011 [–]

>If I showed you this stat, you would lean on taxing the poor more

No I wouldn't. The ones who are getting most of the benefit should be paying the most for the service.

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