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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1034576)	10/20/2017 7:05:53 PM
From: Heywood40	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574880

I used your numbers. You said: By the way, the top 1% of Americans own somewhere between 33-42% of the wealth. Yet they pay 70.6% of federal income taxes. I used 40% (within the range you posted) to make my illustration. While it sounds unreasonable when I hear, "1% pays 70.6% of the taxes", It doesn't sound nearly so unreasonable when I hear, "People with 66 times more money than everyone else pay 72% of taxes." Which portion of my math do you think is incorrect?