Who really isn't paying their " fair share " of income tax revenues?

I know a guy who makes enough money to be called very rich. He decides how much he needs, and he gives all of the rest of it away. The size of the numbers are less relevant than what's left.

Maybe people making $30,000 don't pay income tax, but they sure do pay payroll tax on their entire income. What's left is all they have to live on. Your "top 1%" in the example may pay $97,000 in taxes, but that leaves $243,000 free and clear.

I could get by on that. Most people could.

I'd be thrilled if the effective tax rate went back to what it was during the Reagan years, but I'd settle for what it was during the booming economic years of the Clinton administration. 47% of people PAY TAXES (just thought I'd shout back). They may not earn enough to pay federal taxes, but they pay state income taxes, payroll taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, etc. etc. If the top 1% or top 10% or top 25% paid the same percent of their taxes as I do, that might be a fair share.

However, due to loopholes and deductions, they pay a lower rate than I do, especially the top 1%, whose income is investments and dividends, which are taxed at 15%.

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