According to the Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, 53.7 percent of all federal income taxes were paid by those with incomes over $200,000 in 2006.
Those with incomes between $100,000 and $200,000 paid 28.3 percent of all individual income taxes.
Consequently, those with incomes over $100,000 paid 82 percent of the total; they also paid 44.4 percent of all payroll taxes.
For tax year 2004, the top 25 percent of earners paid 84.86 percent of the total taxes.
Hillary Clinton, April 21, during her campaign stop in Iowa.... said she would raise taxes for the wealthy, who she said "aren't paying their fair share."
"We need to get back to fiscal responsibility," she said.
Yes, the old "Class Warfare" argument... the Democrats love to go after the "rich". As Reagan used to say:
We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
(For a link to the statistics on taxes outlined above click on the title above)
