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Old 07-20-2025, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by MorTech View Post
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.
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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