You say my source is a joke when they get their data from IRS statistics and then post a wikipedia link.
Does MSN work? http://money.msn.com/tax-planning/wh...-real-tax-rate
Or the specifically non-partisan tax policy center? http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfa....cfm?Docid=456
The average effective federal income tax is about 11% it really isn't 20%. Why do you keep linking the base tax rates? nobody pays those rates. And the average is not 20% it is 11%
Also here's an article from CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/18/news...rate/index.htm
It is about Mitt Romney's rate just because that's when they were talking about effective tax rate in the media.
If nearly half of Americans pay no effective tax then why is it surprising that the average effective tax rate is about 11%?