Also Ronald, if you want to lie, at least be clever enough not to say things that contradict the article YOU posted.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...d0iK_blog.html
"That article caused quite a stir at the time, and now the Internal Revenue Service regularly releases data on the top 400 taxpayers. The most recent information, for 2008, shows that the 400 wealthiest Americans paid $19.5 billion in income taxes. That seems like a lot, but their average (effective) tax rate was 18.11 percent, down from as much as 29.93 percent in 1995.
Averages don?t tell the whole story. Of the 400 taxpayers, 238 taxpayers paid a marginal rate of 35 percent, the top income tax bracket. That figure ? which Republicans focus on ? means that more than one-third of each additional dollar earned went to the federal government. However, various deductions and the like helped bring down the average rate. In fact, only 59 taxpayers in this rarified group had an effective tax rate of between 30 and 35 percent."
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