In 2001, taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of $200,000 or more accounted for only 2.0 percent of all tax returns, but they forked over 41.3 percent
What does the writer suggest? Should tax rates by identical to demographic status? If 80% of the population fits into my income segment, should I pay 80% taxes? It seems a distortion to put it this way. Naturally, when you consider all the tax payers making big bucks, it adds up to a significant portion of the whole. But how is this different from the leftists who toss out stats about how 5% of the population consumes 25% of the food, or other such nonsense. What's it got to do with anything? Is he saying the top 1% should pay 1%?