In article ,
 Josh Hill  wrote:


> >> i agree (love the quotes :^).  i see very little difference between a
> >> pure democracy (which we are not) and communism.  its wrong, i think,
> >> to look for *freedom* in the form of govenment, any government.  there
> >> is a social cost that must be paid.  the freedoms we enjoy as a
> >> democratic society are not free.  taxes are just on of those
> >> things.....i have no problem paying more taxes given its the result of
> >> me making more money.
> >> 
> >   And that is what happens now.
> 
> Well, it's supposed to be. Meaningful figures are suspiciously absent.

    You mean like infoplease.com  income earned and Federal Taxes paid 
graph that shows top 1% make 16% of the money and pay 34% of the taxes 
while the bottom half make 14% of the money nd pay only 3.5% of the  
taxes?  
   That is not meaningful numbers that show more money equals more 
taxes? 

   How about Effective Tax rates for all households that shows the 
lowest two quintiles actually have a negative effective tax rate (due to 
paying no taxes at all and getting various credits). Meanwhile, the top 
quintile pays an effective rate of 13.9% while the next quintile pays 
5.9% (with the negative rate, there is a around a 20% difference in the 
rate. 
   Even folding in social security for a total effective tax rate, the 
highest quintile pays an effective rate of 25.0 and the lowest 4.8%, 
still showing a hefty difference. 

 taxpolicycenter.org/TaxFacts/.../PDF/Effective_Rate_historical_all.pdf

How about: 

http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/brucen/451SP06/Federal%20Tax%20Incide
nce%202003%20Summary.htm

http://tinyurl.com/3do6bh


This shows that tax rates as % of income for all federal taxes (include 
FICA and excise taxes) the top quintile paid 25% of their income in 
taxes while the lowest paid 4.8% with the top 5% paying 28%. Share of 
taxes showed top quintile 65.7 of all taxes and bottom quintile 1%.
      No matter how you slice it (% of taxes, effective rate, share,) 
the more you make the more pay in taxes.
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