On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:45:47 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:02:05 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:58:38 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:54:44 -0500, bpuharic wrote:

bull****. if your income is a million bux your effective tax rate is
over 30% because almost all your income is taxed at the marginal rates

lemme ask: did you take ANY math in school? any at all?

the fact is the very rich dont pay ****.

Which is it? "over 30%" or "don't pay ****"?

The fact is the top 5% pay 40% of the taxes.

you're so full of right wing bull**** i can smell it in PA

No, Philadelphia always smells like that. ;-)

Perhaps you would believe the IRS web site ... but I doubt it.

You can go here and crunch the numbers yourself
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09in12ms.xls

you can go here, to the congressional budget office report:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/f.../201117pap.pdf

and find that between 1979 and 2007 the income of the richest 1% grew
by

TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE percent

did their taxes go up that much?

nope. in fact they went DOWN

but you won't believe the CBO because faux news hates it

The top 1% pay 36.7% of the taxes

they have 37.1% of the country's wealth. AND their income has
skyrocketed above and beyond those of the rich of other countries

you have yet to make an argument as to why turning the US into a 3rd
world country is a good think

not sure why the right wing thinks destroying the middle class is good
economics

but you're doing it