The rich and middle class buy 2nd and 3rd homes, recreational vehicles, 2nd,3rd and 4th automobiles, vast amounts of consumer electronics, entertainment, untold numbers of goods and services, travel, they donate vasts amounts into their communities . And they continue to buy and consume wihtout incurring debt. They also invest in others on a daily basis. Not only that, the rich are not a finite few.

You have to shake your head at the abject level of acuity involved in thinking economic issues in America are zero-sum.

There are so many problems with this quote, and article, that it is unfathomable the depth of illogic. Not to mention the petty resentment and hatred that must infect the mind of such a person with this kind of bigoted outlook on fellow Americans who have worked hard and achieved.

“Last week the Congressional Budget Office joined the IRS in releasing tax numbers for 2005, and part of the news is that the richest 1% paid about 39% of all income taxes that year. The richest 5% paid a tad less than 60%, and the richest 10% paid 70%. These tax shares are all up substantially since 1990, and even somewhat since 2000.”

was sure to move dmgivern to block this sort of “hateful” “propaganda”

We continue at Clipmarks the path to reason and understanding.