Originally Posted by epitome

This chart is USELESS.

Do you honestly not understand how that can appear to be more than it's is, or are you just hoping a sucker will believe it?

Let's analyze the total % of income the top 1% pay vs. those in the bottom 95%. That is what matters. Of course 10% of $30,000,000 is a lot more than 10% of $17,400.

Oh, that's right, it wouldn't support your right wing propaganda.

The irony is that the same people that bitch about taxes are the same ones that think Reagan the puppet was a genius. Guess what? Reagan started the outrageous spending! Nobody complains and his predecessors realized they could get away with it, too. Nobody slapped their hands for putting it into the cookie jar.