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To: i-node who wrote (593759)11/20/2010 2:27:21 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Respond to of 1578933
 
In 2008 (updated to 2010) there were 5.6 million people who had average AGI's of about 1.25 million....on average they paid about 214K in income taxes. The average tax rate is therefore 17.2%. Anything else you don't believe...? The top 1% paid 23.27%... Doesn't sound like 36% to me.