# Make the rich pay their fair share! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-the-rich-pay-their-fair-share/1011019 "2024-12-01T15:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 139
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-the-rich-pay-their-fair-share/1011019/139 "2024-12-04T01:45:29Z")
For those with both interest and a bit of patience … one specific post from the thread I started four years ago (and linked to upthread): > [@Do the rich pay their fair share?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-rich-pay-their-fair-share/921817/101): > > For anybody still interested in this topic, I found another really fascinating page and set of charts: I’m going to endeavor to get each of the charts to display here. Buckle up wink[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-capital-gains-rate-1-JPG.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-effective-corporate-rate-2-PDF.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-social-security-and-medicare-3-PDF.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-average-marginal-income-tax-rates-4-PDF_0.jpg)[[image] ](https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/ADavies-marginal-income-tax-rates-5-PDF.jpg) What’s my point ? Same as the point I made earlier: as a nation, we talk a whole lot abou… Take a minute and look at the charts, and then my armchair analysis beneath. I don’t think that what’s actually going on matches up to what most of us _think_ is going on wrt wealth, income, and taxes paid. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-the-rich-pay-their-fair-share/1011019)._