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Keith Graham (skg@sadr.com) wrote:
: acahalan@jupiter.cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan) writes:

: >skg@sadr.com (Keith Graham) writes:

: No.  The bottom 50% pay less than 2% (I think) of the total taxes in this 
: country.  If we were to let them stop paying taxes, everyone else's
: tax bill would go up 2% to cover it.  "Poor" people don't pay taxes
: on their standard deductions, and then the marginal rate on the small
: fraction that's left is much lower than the rate on those of us making
: much more money. 

: >> The top 10% is paying something like 75% of the taxes
: >> in this country, and the top 50% is paying something like 98%.

: >Nope.  The top 10% is not rich, maybe the top 1% is rich.
: >That of course depends on your definition, but most people
: >would put most of the top 10% in the (upper?) middle class.

You're both full of shit.  If you are going to argue numbers, get
a reliable source, IRS, OMB, or something.  I hate to see two
people arguing about something they know nothing about.

Jude
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