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Originally posted by Neilk
Taxes and statistics are never a good combo. You can play with the numbers to support any argument you want to make.
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Not really, unless you lie about the numbers.
The next time you hear someone whine about tax cuts for the rich, ask them what the figure is in real dollars to define "rich".
What is the number?
Well?
The top 50% of wage earners paying 96% of the tax burden are those earning $26,000 a year and up.
So we could conclude that $26,000 a year qualifies you as rich.
Source: Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division, Unpublished Statistics, September 2002.