Federal Taxes Are Highly Progressive

I had a post yesterday about how the top 1% of American taxpayers in 2009 paid 37% of all federal income taxes collected, and the bottom 50% paid only 2% of all income taxes,according to tax data from the IRS. I received two criticisms in the comments section below the CD post and also on Twitter, where I posted several tweets with the relevant chart and income tax statistics.

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