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To: Final Authority
but the rich who constitute 5% of taxpayers pay way over 65% of the total taxes to the government.

What taxes are included in this 65%?

55 posted on 10/11/2005 8:01:49 AM PDT by A. Pole (Sweden's federal tax is ZERO !)
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To: A. Pole
I verified what I believed to be accurate information. Check out the following: http://www.house.gov/jct/x-2-01.pdf

This is for year 2001. I think it is accurate to say that the top 10% pay more than 65% in tax revenue in income tax alone. I think the lower wage earning groups pay at a higher rate when payroll taxes are added in, but the majority of the federal revenue is still paid by the "rich". One must also understand, if a rich man is employing wage earners, he is essentially paying for half of the payroll tax out of what either could be profit or higher wages.

There is a great web site called economagic that may have much of the info that we could use to further discussion on this topic and others.
80 posted on 10/11/2005 10:55:51 AM PDT by Final Authority
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