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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 396732" data-attributes="member: 1912">another source on the subject which has 10 percent paying 70 percent of all taxes:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/features/BudgetChartBook/fed-rev-spend-2008-boc-T4-The-Top-10-Percent-of-Income.html" target="_blank">http://www.heritage.org/research/features/BudgetChartBook/fed-rev-spend-2008-boc-T4-The-Top-10-Percent-of-Income.html</a>&nbsp;The Top 10 Percent of Income Earners Paid 70 Percent of Federal Income Tax&nbsp;The U.S. tax system is highly progressive. The top 1 percent of income earners, by household, paid 39 percent of all federal income taxes in 2005, whereas the bottom 50 percent paid a little over 3 percent. Further, 32 percent of all tax returns filed in 2005 were from people who paid no federal income tax at all.&nbsp;So your argument that the rich are not paying taxes is not supported by either source. And if you look at the graphs the top fifty percent of all wage earners pay close to 97 percent of all taxes. &nbsp;So when Obama speaks of raising taxes guess who is going to pay. It ain&#039;t the bottom fifty its us. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 396732, member: 1912"] [COLOR=blue]another source on the subject which has 10 percent paying 70 percent of all taxes:[/COLOR] [URL]http://www.heritage.org/research/features/BudgetChartBook/fed-rev-spend-2008-boc-T4-The-Top-10-Percent-of-Income.html[/URL] [B]The Top 10 Percent of Income Earners Paid 70 Percent of Federal Income Tax[/B] The U.S. tax system is highly progressive. The top 1 percent of income earners, by household, paid 39 percent of all federal income taxes in 2005, whereas the bottom 50 percent paid a little over 3 percent. Further, 32 percent of all tax returns filed in 2005 were from people who paid no federal income tax at all. [COLOR=blue]So your argument that the rich are not paying taxes is not supported by either source. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]And if you look at the graphs the top fifty percent of all wage earners pay close to 97 percent of all taxes. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]So when Obama speaks of raising taxes guess who is going to pay. It ain't the bottom fifty its us. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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