           II. Editorial: Business as Usual in Washington, D.C.
Source: ABC News  Comments     Threshold   RE: You all are
forgetting one thing By iwanttobehef on 10/4/2011 11:05:56 AM ,
Rating: 1 I would love to see your sources on this. I have
looked into this in the past and come away with different
numbers.  According to this site gathered without much time
spent researching the top 5% earn 34.5% of total income and pay
37.1% of total federal income taxes. leaving the bottom 95% to
pay 62.9% I am not sure if this is just a case of "liars
figuring and figures lying" ie contorting the numbers to say
what you want. But in my research the numbers aren't nearly as
progressive as you claim they are.  RE: You all are forgetting
one thing By Solandri on 10/4/2011 3:04:17 PM , Rating: 3 Why go
to some website with an obvious agenda when the IRS makes the
raw numbers available?,...  For 2009, there were 140.5 million
returns filed. 5% of that would be 7 million. There were 3.9
million returns of $200k or more