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Re:The Rich Do Pay Higher Taxes Than You by uberman on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:21PM (#21218222)
The top 1% tend to have significant income that is not wage based. The rich pay less as a percentage thanks to long term capital gains being taxed at 20%.

Note, the truly rich would consider anyone (no matter how much they make) as a poor wage slave if their primary source of income was wage based.

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Re:The Rich Do Pay Higher Taxes Than You by darawk on Thursday October 10, 2019 @03:21PM (#21218227)
Capital gains are included in these numbers.

Source: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-07/55413-CBO-distribut...

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