[alisasny]

.....only 30 percent of Americans call high taxes a very serious problem

Kristinn, this is the most comical line in the piece..... Ask those in the top 10 percent about HIGH TAXES... Or better yet us middle classers who make up the majority of the revenues...and got next to nothing back.

[kcvl]

.....only 30 percent of Americans call high taxes a very serious problem

That's like NARAL saying that 65% of Americans are PRO-CHOICE. They just add 5% more whenever they feel like it. Pretty soon they have convinced themselves it's true.

I don't know anyone else who sends out proforma letters like the left wing kooks do. I would call that "marching orders". I have yet to have ANYONE tell me what to think, as if I would listen.

[Straight Vermonter]

The bottom 50% of Americans pay barely any income tax so why should high taxes bother them?

Top 5% pay 53.25% of all income taxes (Down from 2000 figure: 56.47%).
The top 10% pay 64.89% (Down from 2000 figure: 67.33%).
The top 25% pay 82.9% (Down from 2000 figure: 84.01%).
The top 50% pay 96.03% (Down from 2000 figure: 96.09%).
The bottom 50%? They pay a paltry 3.97% of all income taxes.

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