[The South Texan]

And what makes you think that low income wage earners dont pay taxes? Ever hear of FICA, sales taxes, and those only include the visible taxes. They also pay corporate income taxes and excise taxes, and tarriffs. Low income people generally pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than middle income tax payers when you include their entire tax load.

And "rich" people don't pay more in excise(tarrifs) and corporate taxes when they by more expensive things? The excise tax on a Sony TV will much higher due to it's cost than let's say a Sanyo. I don't see to many poor people driving BMWs , so I would say the "rich" pay more in excise taxes than the poor will ever pay in their lifetimes.

[Dave S]

so I would say the "rich" pay more in excise taxes than the poor will ever pay in their lifetimes.

If you had read my post you would have seen I said greater percentage of their income. That tariff on the BMW you quoted is not going take a very big chunk of a millionaires total income.