America's maligned, oppressed, overtaxed wealthy (chart)

[marmar]

[dawg]

1. Except that it's only 15% on long-term capital gains.

Which includes the fees earned by hedge fund managers.

[tk2kewl]

4. yep... those numbers are only for W2 earnings

the ultra rich investor class gets to pay far less

[TahitiNut]

6. 35% on income from one's OWN labor; 15% on income from another's labor; ...

... and 0% on income from the DEATH of another.

What's not "fair" about that? It's colonial plantation economics - the GOP ideal.

[Starry Messenger]

2. I wish we could pin this to the top of the forum.

I'm tired of hearing how put upon the wealthy are in the US.

[TBF]

7. +1 nt

[L. Coyote]

3. On income. What is needed is a more comprehensive consideration

so the entire tax burden is shown. What percentage of total income is actually spent on taxation would be the best metric. Poor people spend a higher percentage of income on sales and gas taxes, for example, so does this go up or down when the entire financial accounting is considered?

[Scuba]

5. Anybody got the corresponding chart for capital gains rates???