In Pictures: How Much the Top Earners Already Pay in Taxes
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In Pictures: How Much the Top Earners Already Pay in Taxes
In Pictures: How Much the Top Earners Already Pay in Taxes
Mike Brownfield
Heritage.org
October 4, 2011
America has heard a lot of talk about the “Buffett Rule” — President Barack Obama’s plan to make the tax code more “fair” by permanently raising taxes by $1.5 trillion over 10 years, with most of the burden falling on families and businesses earning more than $250,000 per year. But if he wants to talk about “fairness,” he should look at how much top income earners already pay in taxes, as the chart below shows:
In a new paper, Heritage’s Curtis Dubay explains that the supposed “fairness” of the new rule is anything but fair:
Read more of Dubay’s paper, “The Buffett Rule: Fair to No One,” at Heritage.org.
Mike Brownfield
Heritage.org
October 4, 2011
America has heard a lot of talk about the “Buffett Rule” — President Barack Obama’s plan to make the tax code more “fair” by permanently raising taxes by $1.5 trillion over 10 years, with most of the burden falling on families and businesses earning more than $250,000 per year. But if he wants to talk about “fairness,” he should look at how much top income earners already pay in taxes, as the chart below shows:
In a new paper, Heritage’s Curtis Dubay explains that the supposed “fairness” of the new rule is anything but fair:
To President Obama, it is “fair” to raise taxes on families and businesses earning more than $250,000 a year by raising their income tax rates and limiting their deductions. That must also mean he believes that they currently pay too little in taxes.
Yet the data show the highest-earning families and businesses already pay the lion’s share of the federal income tax burden. According to the IRS, the top 1 percent of income earners—those earning more than $380,000 in 2008—paid more than 38 percent of all federal income taxes while earning 20 percent of all income. The top 10 percent ($114,000 and above) earned 45 percent of income and paid 70 percent of all taxes. At the same time, the bottom 50 percent of income earners—those earning less than $33,000—earned 13 percent of all income and paid less than 3 percent of federal income taxes.
Read more of Dubay’s paper, “The Buffett Rule: Fair to No One,” at Heritage.org.
TexasBlue
Re: In Pictures: How Much the Top Earners Already Pay in Taxes
Ya know, you and I have posted this data countless times, and STILL liberals complain about the "evil" rich not paying their "fair share." I'm so sick of hearing that phrase I could spit! I'm even sicker of hearing full-grown adults and politicians repeating it.
dblboggie
Re: In Pictures: How Much the Top Earners Already Pay in Taxes
dblboggie wrote:Ya know, you and I have posted this data countless times, and STILL liberals complain about the "evil" rich not paying their "fair share." I'm so sick of hearing that phrase I could spit! I'm even sicker of hearing full-grown adults and politicians repeating it.
Yeah, I know. I actually have images like this and countless IRS data saved that constantly and continuously proves these people wrong.
TexasBlue
Re: In Pictures: How Much the Top Earners Already Pay in Taxes
I know. Over and over and over again, the cold hard facts are presented and over and over and over again they are ignored by a left bound and determined to transform America into a socialist "utopia" as if we didn't have countless examples of the abject failures of that ideology.
It's like having a conversation with a fence post.
It's like having a conversation with a fence post.
dblboggie
Re: In Pictures: How Much the Top Earners Already Pay in Taxes
dblboggie wrote:It's like having a conversation with a fence post.
TexasBlue
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