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Old 07-05-2017, 08:56 PM #23
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I saw a statistic on the news tonight where it said that the top 5% of earners paid 47% of the total income tax revenue.

There comes a point where the amount you can raise from top earners becomes maxed-out, no matter what you have the rate at.

Unless the point of it all is to enforce equality...

Ooooh, more Animal Farm than 1984 then.
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