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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (359359)11/19/2007 1:57:09 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1578494
 
"How do the following "nuances" make more than a minor difference?"

Well, the "minor" differences means the top 1% don't pay 40% or even 33% of the total federal tax load, but more like 22%.

And that doesn't take into account state and local taxes. Which tend to be regressive.

faireconomy.org

And a growing percentage of the total tax burden as services get pushed off on the states.

And that means that top 1% pays an even smaller portion of the overall tax load. And it is shrinking.

So, his premise was flawed and his numbers were wrong.

I suppose that is obfuscation, but...
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