[ex-snook]

official IRS data showed that for 2007 the top 1% of income earners paid more in federal income taxes than the bottom 95% combined.

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But the imbalance in taxes also shows the imbalance in income.

[aruanan]

But the imbalance in taxes also shows the imbalance in income.

As though, in any but a fantasy world, there should be a balance in income?

[aruanan]

But the imbalance in taxes also shows the imbalance in income.

Different things and different actions have different prices because they have different values because producing them or doing them have different degrees of difficulty and costs and different demands by those who want them done. You may as well complain about the imbalance in costs between a pound of lead and a pound of gold and say, well, they're all equally part of the category of metals, so there shouldn't be any difference between them. I work as hard at my job as Bill Gates so either I should have his income or he should have my income. Doctrinaire approaches to reality almost always results in insanity. And leftist politics has the greatest number of nutcases of any of them.

[DonaldC]

“But the imbalance in taxes also shows the imbalance in income. “

I would like to see stats that leave out corporate taxes. I think 1% thing is skewed.