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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (33234)2/24/2009 4:14:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Apples and Oranges!

You are falsely trying to compare two very different things:

1) The opinion piece I posted was *specifically* referring to "percent of individual's total income" that is payed to Uncle Sam (net of deductions....)

2) What YOU are talking about now is an entirely different statistical point: How much of Uncle Sam's total revenue (as a percent of revenue) is payed by the richest.

OBVIOUSLY the richer they *are* the higher percent of Sam's revenue their payments will amount to.

But that IN NO WAY contradicts my point that the NET PERCENTAGE OF THEIR OWN TOTAL INCOMES that gets paid (after deductions, loopholes, etc., the NET PAID, not the nominal) is VERY MUCH LOWER.

The two points do not contradict each other in *any way*... they are simply referring to do different things. :-)
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