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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Tue Apr 14, 2009 at 07:46:54 AM MST
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| Naturally Ezra Klein does a much better job explaining why Ari Fleischer's WSJ op-ed is "dreck," and he does so by crafting this lovely graph:
(Numbers courtesy of the CBO.)
Klein:
When you look at percentage of total tax liabilities, the rich do in fact bear a heavier burden. But it's because they have so much more money. They are not bearing a heavier burden as a percentage of their incomes. They're bearing it in relation to everyone else's incomes. Indeed, it's only because the sheer levels of income inequality in this country are frankly unintuitive that Fleischer can even write this sort of dreck....
Add the fact that progressive tax reform would actually help most Americans, some recent polling data that shows a majority of Americans think their tax rate is "fair." What's remarkable is that the polling data indicates that Americans' current attitudes to their own taxes is extraordinarily friendly, historically speaking, and this whole "Tea Party" think looks absolutely absurd. |
| Jay Stevens :: Income taxes and tea parties, take 2 |
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