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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1052756, member: 27832&quot;]For comparison, the top 1% of earners earn 20% of the total income, and the top 5% earn about 35%. In concrete terms, using 2008 numbers, a person earning $160K paid on average some $32K in income tax, while a person earning $33K paid on average $4.5K.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t speak for anyone else, but 10% of what I earned as a graduate student seemed like a <i>much</i> greater burden than 20% of what I earn now. (Not that I&#039;ve made it into those rarefied brackets.) Remember, those on the high end of the scale may pay a &quot;disproportionate&quot; amount of tax, but those on the low end have to pay a &quot;disproportionate&quot; amount to cover food and shelter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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