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To: SilentZ who wrote (358501)11/14/2007 2:53:20 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1572958
 
Z, > They likely pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than I do.

It's likely that the poor elderly ingrate that you just thanked did as well.

> Except they don't.

It's already an established fact that the top 20% of Americans pay 80% of federal income taxes.

Since not all taxes are federal income taxes, it's not hard to postulate that the richest 10-15% of Americans pay half of ALL the taxes.

Tenchusatsu