Re: Mitt Romney: A very big gamble for the GOP

Spender wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:17:41 -0500, "RichL"<rpleavitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Spender"<Spender@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Shoulder the burden? Did you miss the part about the top 25% of taxpayers
paying 80% of all federal income taxes?

What percentage of all income in the US is made by the top 25%? I'd be
extremely surprised if it was less than 85%.

2009 tax data shows that the top 25% made 65.8% of the income, but paid
87.3% of federal income taxes.

The top 10% made 43.2% of the income, but paid 70.5% of all federal income
tax.

The top 1% made 16.9% of the income, but paid 36.7% of all federal income
tax.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html#table1

That all seems to be fairly progressive to me.


Oh, it is. Was someboldy saying it isn't?

And notice this little bit about the top 0.1%:

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Les Cargill

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