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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (358475)	2/12/2003 9:56:53 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

I will look for documentation on the web but I believe that when you lump payroll taxes in with federal income tax, the of overall taxes between the rich and the middle class is roughly equal. Somehow I remember something like 10% overall tax burden for poor, 25% middle class, 25% highest income. The entire argument that the rich pay such a huge proportion of taxes is a scam, lying with statistics and incorrect anyway because they leave off fica. A more fair distribution would be something like 10-10-30 if you were going to gradiate things. The thing that bothers me the most is this stupid notion of a flat tax that conservatives have... a good idea - oh, except it doesn't include the fica/SS scam at which point "flat taxes" actually create a regressive tax burden against the poor!