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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][img]http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/03/FT_15.03.23_taxesInd.png[/img][/quote]

Do you really honestly believe that a coal miner should pay the same taxes as a corporate CEO?  really???[/quote]

Is that what the chart shows?[/quote]

What's missing from this chart is how much income each group made.  If that were added in, it would become quite clear that the folks at the bottom of the graph are paying the lions share of taxes, because they are making the lion's share of income.

People take a lot for granted.  "I pay more than a guy making $35k and the guy making $35k should have more skin in the game" - yeah, well the guy making $35k probably doesn't have much of anything left after paying rent on his modest apartment, paying bills, and buying groceries.  Basic living expenses eat up most of his income, whereas for someone making $350k that's not at all the case.  The guy making $35k most certainly isn't living high on the hog.  He doesn't have much more to give, and that's the problem.  You can't get blood from a stone.

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