Interesting perspective. The bottom 94% may also include those with very high incomes since the top 10% is included in that group as well. Or not, I don't know. In that same vein, the bottom 80% only paid 36.5%.


>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.
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>>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
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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.