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A special break implies they are getting something FROM THE GOVERNMENT everyone else is not. They are getting a little more of what they earned. They are not getting government handouts and are still paying both a higher % and a higher # of taxes than everyone under them.
If the wealthy have a tax break now, everyone else has even MORE of a tax break because they are paying even less than they are.
No the super wealthy pay less a percentage of their income that their receptionists.
"The Internal Revenue Service tracks the tax returns with the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes each year. The average income on those returns in 2007, the latest year for IRS data, was nearly $345 million. Their average federal income tax rate was 17 percent, down from 26 percent in 1992."