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Originally Posted by MorTech
The upper 10% pay close to 85% of all taxes...How much more is fair? Take all their assets and you might be able to fund FedGov for 10 months...Then we all starve to death because those 10% produce about 80% of everything.
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Your math is just a bit off.
The top 10% pay about 70% of income taxes. It's the top 25%, those making over $100K, that pay 85% of income taxes.
I'm confident we aren't going to starve because the upper 10% stop growing and picking food.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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