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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1052776, member: 27832&quot;]Couldn&#039;t say. The source I used (<a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html</a>) doesn&#039;t break out the bottom 50%, which in 2008 earned 12.75% of total income and paid 2.7% of total income tax. If you <i>did</i> drop the tax rate for that <i>entire</i> cohort to 0, though, it would only cost you 2.7% of total revenue. Conversely, sharply increasing their tax (to make it &quot;proportionate&quot;), while it might devastate their finances, would make only a trivial dent in the nation&#039;s budget.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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