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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I DO think the top 5% paying 65% of taxes is unfair IF they receive 90% of the net income.
You never asked your neighbors for that information because you always trusted they were in the same boat that you were (or that you were doing better and didn’t want to bring the issue up). The suspicion is that those in the top 5% are in an entirely different boat than most of the rest of the country.
Prove me wrong. Show me the fact-based statistics on earned income next to the statistics on taxes paid. Show me the statistics on effective tax rate across the board. Explain to me why one is so easy to find but the other is not.
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Because it is irrelevant except to satisfy the curiosity of some.