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Most of the income taxes in America are paid by a small minority. Most people probably wouldn't have a problem with a $500/year Antiterrorism bill, as long as s
by dpatru 16y ago
Most of the income taxes in America are paid by a small minority. Most people probably wouldn't have a problem with a $500/year Antiterrorism bill, as long as someone else has to pay it.
- bendotc 16y agoTrue, though most of the wealth in America is held by a small minority too, which kind of creates the weird taxing/spending incentives. (http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who-has-money/ http://www.good.is/post/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-a...)
- Cushman 16y agoThat chart needs to be distributed way more widely. Spoiler alert: the difference between what Republicans and Democrats think the median wealth should be is less than a quarter of the difference between the lower of those numbers and what it actually is. We're arguing over a fiction.
- abrown28 16y agoI wonder how they calculate wealth and if they've ever tried to track which direction most people move on the wealth scale.