Ray From Cleveland
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Ray From Cleveland, post: 19059077,The top 1% pay almost 46% of all collected income taxes in this country. If paying nearly half of all taxes is not enough, then what is?
Go back and check. The top 1% own nearly twice as much as the bottom 90%, So 46 percent seems quite fair.
"The richest 1% of families controlled a record-high 38.6% of the country's wealth in 2016, according to a Federal Reserve reportpublished on Wednesday.
That's nearly twice as much as the bottom 90%, which has seen its slice of the pie continue to shrink."
Record inequality: The top 1% controls 38.6% of America's wealth
That's your slice of the pie shrinking. If you think you don't deserve a fair share that's your problem. Perhaps you are lazy, not productive.
So where is the equity in taking more from people that have more? And if that's fair, then why not expand that to other areas?
For instance, you have ten beautiful bushes in front of your home. Would it not be fair for the government to come along and take six of your bushes, and give them to your neighbor on the next street who has none?
Or you may be an entertainment enthusiast. You have four big screens in your home. That's not fair. Your neighbor only has a single 30" television. Would it not be fair for government to take two of your big screens and give them to those who have no big screens?
"What is YOUR fair share of what somebody else worked for?"
Thomas Sowell