Bush: Making the Rich richer

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Originally Posted by Mark

Based on the 2003 IRS tax data, the same year referenced in the article in the first post:

The top 1 percent of taxpayers, ranked by adjusted gross income, paid 34.3 percent of all federal income taxes.
The top 5 percent of taxpayers paid 54.4 percent
The top 10 percent of taxpayers paid 65.8 percent
The top 25 percent of taxpayers paid 83.9 percent.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html

Wow! Stop and think about those numbers for a minute. We have 1% of the population paying 34.3% of ALL taxes. The top 25% of the population are paying 84% of the taxes. How many of the people bitching are in the top 25% ? We aren't a socialism, we shouldn't have people taking home similar amounts of money no matter how much they make.