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Old 03-25-2012, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by vinyl1 View Post
For a simple reason....the top 10% in income receive 45% of the income and pay 67% of all Federal income taxes. According to the IRS statistics for 2010, these are returns with AGI over $113,000.

Where do most of these people live? New York, California....
Sorry but I think you might have that backwards; they pay 45% of all income taxes but receive 67% of the income.
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