If they included the earnings as well then that would publicize to the world that the reason the lowest 20% of the income earners in this country only pay 1% of the tax burden is because they are in the poverty level! You saw what happened when the world saw the living conditions of the poor during Hurricane Katrina...


>I can't determine the family income range for each of those categories.
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>>I guess you are referring to Canada because that simply is not so in the U.S. The facts show otherwise.
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>>http://www.cbpp.org/4-13-05tax.htm
>>http://www.factcheck.org/article280.html
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>>Share of federal tax burden:
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>>Lowest 20%   1.1%
>>Second 20%   5.2%
>>Middle 20%  10.5%
>>Fourth 20%  19.5%
>>Top 20%     63.5%
>>Top 5%      35.9%
>>Top 1%      20.1%
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>>While there are many references which claim different amounts, the percentage difference each one sites is very close.