Also from your linked site… the top 1% income folks had a 4.1% increase in total income share while their total share of taxes paid rose just 3.5%.
How dare they keep more of what they produced! Off with their heads.
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1 slightly down year in 2023 of 1.9% followed by a 5% up year in 2024 and a projected 8% increase in 2025. Coming out of the pandemic…our spending should have logically dropped alot.
From your people in Washington:
That’s 194 pages. Heh, will it be on the test?
All things being equal, for the top 1%, shouldn’t their share of the increase in total taxes be at least equal to the increase they got in income?
I’m sure your outspoken support for the folks who make an average of $819,324 a year appreciate it. And I think the top .1% earning $3.3M a year LOVE you for it.
SOMEBODY has to fight their battles for them. 
Always turning it personal don’t you, congrats.
In that case…
My wife and I donated more $ to charity the last two years than Jill and Joe Biden did. Sadly, it didn’t take a lot to do that.
The only time someone should be happy about taxes is when theirs go down.
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All I’m doing is stating a fact.
And here’s some more facts:
In 1980 the max tax rate was 70%. In 2022 it was 37%. The wealth gap also set new records during that period.
The reason that is so is because the top 1% bought that rate from the politicians that represent you. And, as a result, you get to pay higher taxes. Isn’t that great?
The 40% of the population that pays ZERO income taxes loves you. Im still waiting on a thank you note from any of them…
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We would be much better off if all people were paying less in tax than fewer people paying more in tax.
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For the last forty years the top tier of taxpayers have seen a decrease in their tax rates. In those same forty years the gap has widened between the top 0.5% percentile and every else.
I see a correlation between the two facts and evidence that some politicians are skilled at finding ways to help the top half-percenters gain even more wealth. And I’m puzzled as to why some in the bottom 99% are so adamant about protecting the top one-half percenters.
We are approaching the largest national debt since 1946 and are projected to surpass it soon.
Where else, but the taxpayers, is the money to address that problem going to come from?
Spend less…???
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Notwithstanding the obvious… spending. How does tax revenue at any level cause a national debt without the spending it is chasing?
As I already said MORE people paying tax not fewer paying more tax unless of course the goal is a confiscatory and punitive tax policy.
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I don’t want someone else’s money. I’m willing to pay my share, I’d just like to see people who benefit most from what our country offers pay their fair share. I’ve been in the top 10% of income earners ever since I was 29 years old, (retired now,) and I happily pay my share every year.
I trust you are willing to pay your part… right?.. and I can’t understand why you shouldn’t expect everyone to do their part.
They will never define the amount…but using the “fair share” talking point allows them to just complain. Its really just wealth envy at the end of the day. Some people are just very obsessed about what successful people earn and pay and taxes. Its usually the people that pay no taxes already…
Partially, I think more so it is a position that it never really was your money but what you were allowed to keep by a governing body. Therefore your “fair share” should always be variable.
How about this definition?
How did this thread about EV’s, 105 posts ago, get skewed into who pays enough taxes?