What you and others do not seem to realize is that the percentage of their actual wealth that the wealthy pay is no more (and may even be less) than the percentage of the wages and wealth of the middle class and working poor. In fact, from a pure wealth stand point, the top 0.4% of the wealthy own some 40% of the wealth of this nation, and the bottom 40% own some 0.4%. So, just who should be paying the largest percentage of the federal taxes? Especially, as it is those very federal taxes that have built much (if not most) of the very infrastructure of this great country that the wealthy have depended upon to help generate the very wealth that they so enjoy.
What you and others do not seem to realize is that the percentage of their actual wealth that the wealthy pay is no more (and may even be less) than the percentage of the wages and wealth of the middle class and working poor. In fact, from a pure wealth stand point, the top 0.4% of the wealthy own some 40% of the wealth of this nation, and the bottom 40% own some 0.4%. So, just who should be paying the largest percentage of the federal taxes? Especially, as it is those very federal taxes that have built much (if not most) of the very infrastructure of this great country that the wealthy have depended upon to help generate the very wealth that they so enjoy.