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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 12:26 AM Original message |
In 2007, top 0.1% of individual tax filers - 114,000 people - took 12% of US income, = bottom 50%. |
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devils chaplain (245 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
1. But... |
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pa28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 02:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Delete. |
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devils chaplain (245 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 01:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Thanks... |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Wait...I think I felt a drop of the trickle down..a drop maybe of the piss |
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phasma ex machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 12:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Billionaire bankster Boehners are obscene. nt |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
4. Muricans suffer from innumbracy (same as |
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Foo Fighter (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 03:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yes. For some odd reason, some people that make,say, $30,000/yr defend the |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 05:29 AM Response to Original message |
7. I'm kind of shocked only 0.1% make over $2 million dollars. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 01:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. I'm pretty sure that is taxable income they're talking about in the OP.. |
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mainer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 01:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. It is a surprisingly small number, isn't it? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 01:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Oh, they do, they just don't pay taxes on all of it.. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Isn't that why it's more important to look at exemptions than the rate itself? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 08:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Why not look at both? |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-25-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. it's adjusted gross income. |
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