>>If you feel so strongly tht the bottom 20% are paying too much, I suggest that you donate all of your income to them. There is nothing stopping you from doing so.
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You posted figures suggesting a heavy tax burden carried by the top 1% compared to little or nothing from the rabble. My response was that by your own "skin in the game" measure, with over 40% of the wealth the top 1% should be paying 40% of the tax. With over 85% of the wealth, the top 20% should be paying 85% of the tax. Or even a little more: after all, Thomas Jefferson said it is a "patriotic duty" for the wealthy to pay extra to help fund the needs of the nation.
If you want to assign positions, make me concerned about the younger middle classes who have been going backwards so that the elite can have more. When the poor riot and revolt, they're disorganized and easily controlled but if the middle class joins in, it's game over.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
