Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
Successful people who have worked all their lives should pay whatever the government needs.
This is the kind of tripe you can always find in the scumbag Democrat New York Times!
Did you notice the author?
It was Ben Stein.