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Old 11-30-2012, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by dellinger63 View Post
The top 1% pay 30% of the income tax.

I'd say they're doing more than their fair share.
Except that the top 1 percent own 42 percent of the nation's wealth, so in fact, no, they aren't doing their fair share; they're living off the backs of the rest of us. There's nothing like being rich to make a person expect free stuff.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...t-one-percent/
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