Er, guys... Basic math and comprehension skills?
"In 2004, the wealthiest 20% of Americans paid 85.3% of all income taxes." How much money did the US government take in through income tax in 2004? (I'm sure the number is on a government website somewhere, but I don't have time to find it right now.) Multiply that number by 85.3% - the result is how much was collected from the wealthiest 20%. The rest - the other 14.7% - was collected from the other four-fifths of the population.
(At least, that's what ECSNorway said. If that wasn't what was meant, then the wrong thing was said...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
"In 2004, the wealthiest 20% of Americans paid 85.3% of all income taxes." How much money did the US government take in through income tax in 2004? (I'm sure the number is on a government website somewhere, but I don't have time to find it right now.) Multiply that number by 85.3% - the result is how much was collected from the wealthiest 20%. The rest - the other 14.7% - was collected from the other four-fifths of the population.
(At least, that's what ECSNorway said. If that wasn't what was meant, then the wrong thing was said...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012