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Canada's new Prime Minister is right wing
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07/02/2006 09:24:36
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Where I'm going with my question is that the bottom 95% pays 64.1% of the taxes. This bottom 95% may be the middle class and lower class. Therefore, they might be paying the majority of the income taxes.

>What I have always wanted to see is a breakdown of the tax burden itself (why is it so high) depicting where the tax money is spent...
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>>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
>>>
>>>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%
>>>
>>>
>>>While there are many references which claim different amounts, the percentage difference each one sites is very close.
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