- May 20, 2009
- 144,486
- 66,880
- 2,330
That's totally wrong. Either you're stupid or a liar. In either case, we can safely ignore any statistics you post to this forum.
Stop being a distorter you moron, part of the reason why a lot of people are not paying income taxes is because the rich pay most of their taxes on capital gains and dividends which is taxed at a lower rate than income taxes so the super rich who earned 100 million dollars of their dividends and capital gains would only pay may 17 million of that in taxes, a middle class person who makes 30,000 dollars a year will pay proportionally more in income taxes.
It's not just that; income taxes only account for around 40% of federal revenue. Another 40% comes from FICA taxes. The weatlhy pay very little in those taxes compared to everyone else as a percentage of their income.
The wealthy don't depend on the bankrupt Social Security "Trust Fund" either