Re: Soak the Almost Rich
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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> Or consider the analysis USA Today published last week, which found that > Americans are paying the smallest share of their income for taxes since > 1958—23.6 percent, versus about 27 percent in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. On > average, a person making $100,000 this year will pay $23,600 in combined > taxes—federal, state, and local, income, payroll, and sales—versus $28,700 in > 2000 and $27,300 in 1990. Except when you compare incomes with those of 10, 20 and more years ago, it buys less today than it did then. So those earning $100,000 in the past were "richer" than those doing so today. So it makes sense they'd be in a higher bracket and pay more. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot