Since you decided to use the BOLD command....
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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY
the top 1 percent of taxpayers would pay a greater share of the total federal tax burden than the bottom 80 percent of Americans combined.
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This has been true for quite some time. The top 1% pay nearly 40% of the tax burden alone.
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By itself, the $40 billion tax hike is twice as much as all the federal taxes paid by people in the bottom quintile combined.
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According to the numbers at taxpolicycenter.org (yo, I got the site from your own post) the bottom quintile in 2007 had a mean household income of about 12,000 per year. So in other words, these people don't pay taxes anyway.
I have to say that your anger seems to be fueled by partisan hack job hit pieces that can't even stand up to a few minutes with the Google. This article that I'd note you didn't post a link to, is just citing business as usual hoping you'll get a rise out of it.
RIJIMMY, do you really understand anything you're bitching about?
-spence