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Well if you read what I wrote, I didn't say that they fund 60%/87% of federal revenue. I said they pay 60%/87% of income taxes.

Since payroll is proportional to income, that's even more federal revenue that is indirectly levied on the labor of the top 5% and 20%.

Once you include capital gains taxes, the top 5% and top 20% cover even more of federal revenue. The only portion of capital gains that isn't personal capital gains is corporate capital gains. A sizable amount of non-individual capital gains are hedge funds and retirement accounts, which once again are mostly funded by many people in the top 5% and 20%.

Any way you slice it, it's largely the top 5% to top 20% of so funding much of the operating costs of USA Inc. Everyone in the bottom 50% gets a 50% say while paying a mere 3% of income taxes and probably even less in taxes once you include all sources of federal revenue.



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