Originally Posted by
Machismo
I've posted it a half dozen times, it's about tax burden based on income.
I backed it up dozens of times.
That would not in any way function as an argument against the idea that the wealthy need to pay more in taxes. A bunch of numbers cannot possibly refute that.
You're just deflecting again. Back up your claims.
Their "true tax rate" isn't true at all, because it's an income tax, not a wealth tax. They may have well called it a "super duper tax number."
Again, Propublica defined their terms very clearly, that they were looking at "growth of wealth" rather than "income".
To capture the financial reality of the richest Americans, ProPublica undertook an analysis that has never been done before. We compared how much in taxes the 25 richest Americans paid each year to how much Forbes estimated their wealth grew in that same time period.
We’re going to call this their true tax rate.
It isn't their fault you didn't read the article very carefully. You're attacking a straw man, not the article or its analysis.