Actually what I meant was that the upper income people you seem to despise so much seem to pay the bulk of the taxes in this country...Those folks in the bottom 50% should not begrudge those above them as without them they might have to pay their "fair share".


Number of Returns
(000)
AGI
($000,000)
Income Taxes Paid
($000,000)
Group's Share of Total AGI
Group's Share of Income Taxes
Income Split Point
Average Tax Rate

All Taxpayers 128,817 6,241,036 887,682 100.0% 100.0% 14.2%

Top 1% 1,288 1,094,296 300,898 17.5% 33.9% above $ 292,913 27.5%

Top 5% 6,441 1,996,492 472,823 32.0% 53.3% above $ 127,904 23.7%
Top 10% 12,882 2,690,589 576,163 43.1% 64.9% above $ 92,754 21.4%
Top 25% 32,204 4,071,034 736,053 65.2% 82.9% above $ 56,085 18.1%
Top 50% 64,409 5,379,286 852,642 86.2% 96.1% above $ 28,528 15.9%
Bottom 50% 64,409 861,750 35,040 13.8% 3.9% below $ 28,528 4.1%
Source: IRS

Kind of hard to see as the spread sheet didn't line up but let's just focus on the bottom 50% of taxpayers....They contribute only 13.8% of income reported by all....The bottom 50% of all taxpayers only pays 3.9% of all income taxes. The top 25% of taxpayers pay almost 85% of all income taxes.

Not only does that top 25% pay the lion's share of the tax load but they are also the ones who provide most of the jobs....other than the government jobs so many have....so many of the biggest complainers I submit have one of those dandy government jobs.