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To: thames_sider who wrote (92691)	10/31/2008 1:18:10 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541522

There is no link since the data is from a paper publication not from an internet source. See the end of that page, the data is from "Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries," Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2008. p. 112. The rich pay proportionately more of the taxes in the US because they're so very much richer than the median. True but even adjusting for that they pay more, as the data shows. Share of taxes of richest decile, is just the fact that the rich pay a bigger proportion of taxes in the US. Much of that is because they earn a bigger proportion of the income, but the other two figures adjust for that fact and still have the US coming in 1st or 2nd in terms of the tax burden on the rich. The other countries have more extensive benefits for the poor, the OECD study was just about taxation. If you combine the fact that we are hitting the rich harder with taxes than other OECD countries, while also beging less generous (as a percentage of national income, not in total dollars or even per capita dollars) with benefits to the poor, that the other OECD nations would have to be hitting the middle class (at least upper middle class) higher than we are. But the data in that report only suggests such a conclusion, its far from enough to be anywhere close to definitive.