"G.T." wrote:

You are off your rocker. You believe they somehow escape property
taxes, income taxes, sales taxes,... etcetera?

Escape property taxes? No. Sales taxes? Of course not. Income taxes?
Absolutely.

Errrr, then why do the upper 5% pay 53.3% of the total income tax (on
32% of the income)? Doesn't sound like they really "escaped" to me.
Their percentage of the total tax burden has been steadily climbing
since it was in the mid-30 percentages back in the early 1980s.

(the above based on 2001 tax data - there is a wealth of statistical
information about actual income vs. tax trends there that surpise most
people who read it...)

http://www.taxfoundation.org/prtopincometable.html

Mark Hickey
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