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-chuckles- Oh I know, you were pointing out that they do pay some taxes, it was your comparison to of saying they pay as a percentage of income more then those that do pay income taxes I was taking exception to.
Gets out my handy dandy calculator, I'll even give you a break, the bottom of the top 5% of income earners is 180,000 dollars. Now lets say they get off paying just 15% in income taxes, (that figure is half of what they are suppose to pay) that means you are going to have to show me proof of where a person earning say 30,000 pays 4,500 dollars in some sort of federal tax . Just to get to an even percentage rate of the upper 5 %... after you do that.... then we can get into the spending the habits of the upper 5% and those in the lower 47%
He wasn't arguing federal, just saying.