Instead of being cute how about just telling me what rate the poor wittle snowflakes do pay.
What they actually pay, if you don’t mind too much.
It is in the thread.
Excuse me if this site has already been linked:
It says that in 2010 the top 1% paid an average of 23.39% Federal.
Poor widdle Thaaaangs!
My ass-- rachet it up to 35% or so.
This reply of yours might reasonably be termed a dick.
CBO says 28.5. Compared to “middle class” 's 10-15%. Your guesses were wrong.
If conservatives don’t trust the CBO, neither do I. I’m going with 23%.
You expect me to believe the top 1% with all their access to fancy accountants
and tax lawyers can only get out from under ~1% of their 29.5% statutory rate?
Until I get a link from you I will assume you don’t know how to read a data table.
http://cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43373-Supplemental_Tables_Final.xls
First tab, top table.
I do not believe that tax rate is synonymous with tax *actually paid *as a per cent of income,
for reasons given earlier.
Excellent point - we are talking about the party that bitched about polls over sampling democrats (which turned out not to be true) and I didn’t hear one person claim this corporate 8% stuff. In fairness, I did hear people bring up his donation to his “charity”.
It’s an “average tax rate”. From the 1st page: “Average tax rates are calculated by dividing tax liabilities by before-tax income.”. “Tax liabilities” equals “tax paid” - unless you want to go to jail.
This table tracks the “effective tax rate”. Whether you believe it or not.
Does this effective tax rate include state And local taxes as well?
Federal taxes.
So then this is incomplete data on “effective taxes paid”?