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[quote=Anonymous]Just wanted to throw this out there in case all the people on this thread ranting about how the poors pay no taxes (except state taxes, sales taxes, etc.) care to read. I'll even put some nice relevant quotes in here to make it easy.  :roll:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b4224045265660.htm

[quote]For the 400 U.S. taxpayers with the highest adjusted gross income, the effective federal income tax rate—what they actually pay—fell from almost 30 percent in 1995 to just under 17 percent in 2007, according to the IRS. And for the approximately 1.4 million people who make up the top 1 percent of taxpayers, the effective federal income tax rate dropped from 29 percent to 23 percent in 2008. It may seem too fantastic to be true, but the top 400 end up paying a lower rate than the next 1,399,600 or so. [/quote]

and

[quote]For those who can afford a shrewd accountant or attorney, our era is rife with opportunity to avoid, or at least defer, tax bills, according to tax specialists and public records. It's limited only by the boundaries of taste, creativity, and the ability to understand some very complex shelters.[/quote]

And for those of you who keep parroting about how all the money that is being "stolen" from you via taxes would otherwise be used to create jobs and help the poor teeming masses, well please tell me how well "trickle-down economics" worked the first time...  :roll: [/quote]

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