Five Facts About America's Pathological Wealth Distribution

[Major Nikon]

13. It's simply a race to the bottom which ultimately benefits neither the rich or poor

As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the rich will always pay more taxes as a function of the overall tax bill. The tax code was never designed to be fair, it was designed from inception to be progressive, and it can't work any other way UNLESS you have true classless society (think stone hard extreme socialism that terrifies the right).

Wingnuts that believe the tax code should be "fair" should learn basic math. Total federal tax revenue is $2.5 trillion. Divide that by 300 million people and you get a $8,333 tax burden for every man woman and child. That's $33.3K of federal taxes for a family of 4 in a country where the median household income is $50K. Evidently wingnuts aren't smart enough to use a calculator. So either the rich should pay more or you get a country with less roads or schools (and dog forbid no military) or everyone should make the same amount of money (classless society) so they can pay the same amount of taxes.

What I find amusing (albeit sadly pathetic) is a portly drug addict was able to convince millions of wingnuts that the rich should pay less while they should pay more.