You'll note I was not the one complaining, though.
"Fair" isn't a metric I'm able to come up with very well. I can come up with different numbers depending on what outcome is desired but "fair" is not something I've been trained as an economist to get into.
I'd suggest Mr dog your "question" garnered little response simply due to the "question". Not only is it rather pointless it is obviously intended not for information but meaningless argument.
Regarding your statement:
Once again you rush to an illogical conclusion. You ignore there are those within this group that believe they are paying less than their "fair share"..obviously their view is not as you suggest "just jealous BS"Nope, I think if a person is going to sit back and whine about the rich not paying their fair share, they should be able to put a number on what the "fair share" is....otherwise, it's all just jealous BS......
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
They're just afraid to actually post a number showing how much of their own money "the rich" should be "allowed" to keep, because they know how ugly that number would actually look when written down....
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23392.html
Top 1% paying almost 40%.......how much should they pay?In 2006, the top 1 percent of tax returns paid 39.9 percent of all federal individual income taxes and earned 22.1 percent of adjusted gross income, both of which are significantly higher than 2004 when the top 1 percent earned 19 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI) and paid 36.9 percent of federal individual income taxes. In 1990, those figures were 14 percent and 25.1 percent, respectively.
If you have a serious interest in this then I suggest you forget about a singular focus on Federal Income Tax and the published effective tax rates--since they are anything but "effective".
Effective should be the actual rate of taxation---prior to AGI calculations. It should also include all taxes, not simply Federal Income tax.
If you look into this you will find out that even the Federal Tax falls off for the highest incomes.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
The top 1% pays 40% of income tax. They also pay the sales tax on the high dollar toys they buy....luxury cars, boats, planes, etc., then in states like mine they also pay yearly property tax on them. They pay property taxes, school taxes, etc, on their expensive homes every year. They pay taxes on all the stuff they buy just like you and I, except what they buy is usually more expensive than what I buy so they pay more taxes on that stuff too.