Gene Wolfe's Politics

Chris P · 28 Mar 2009, 05:58 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: rasputin_ at hotmail.com (Chris P)
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:58:41 +0000
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe's Politics
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> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> > Not that class warriors were ever swayed by facts, but from
> > http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percentage_of_federal_income_tax_is_paid_by_the_wealthy:
> > 
> > Some quick statistics: The top 1% of earners pay 21.20% of all taxes paid
> > at an average rate of 24%, the top 2 - 5% of earners pay 14.55% of all
> > taxes at an average of 18% (Top 5% pay @36% of all tax) The bottom 50% pay
> > 3% of all tax collected at an average rate of 2.98%.
> 
> The correct data can be found here:
> 
> http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/wp1.pdf (pp. 22-24)
> 
> Total tax rates by quintile are:
> 
> 1: 13.0%, 2: 23.2%, 3: 28.2, 4: 31.3%, 5: 34.5%

All of this is very nice, but I thought we weren't having this conversation.

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