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At least I am consistent in dianoppisting you on a regular basis. You say it is absurd to call the current system unfair when one group is paying all the taxes and another group is paying very little. My comment was meant to point out that when one group has almost all the money, they should in fact pay most of the taxes. I frequently hear the complaint that the top 1% pays 37% of the taxes (hey, I even heard that from you in your original post above), as if the fair thing would be for the top 1% to pay 1% of the taxes. My point is that you cannot compare 1% of the people to 1% of the taxes. Perhaps Fox News would try out such a dumb misuse of statistics (undoubtedly after accidentally calling Obama Osama), but surely not someone as smart as you, my own cousin who shares 12.5% of my genes (and therefore should only pay 12.5% of the amount I pay in taxes oh, wait, I'm confusing percentages again). Although I don't have the numbers at my fingertips (or anywhere else), I'm going to guess that the top 1% of the people earn WAY more than 37% of the income, and their income appears to be growing. So of course they should be responsible for paying a large portion of the country's income tax. My example of a simple society of 10 people was meant to make that point, but it undoubtedly did not do (as the British would say).One other point I wish to make will sorely disappoint you as well. If you earn $100,000 a year and you pay $15,000 in taxes, and I earn $30,000 a year and pay the same percentage, viz. $4,500, the amount that I am paying is much more hurtful to my quality of life than the amount you are paying. In that instance, I will resent being asked to be grateful to you, and I will especially resent being told that I should be happy to be paying very little.

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