17% Income Tax Rate for the Very Rich

The richest people in America have paid only 17% income tax for PAST TEN YEARS* - much less than the middle class, thanks to Bush Tax Cuts.*

Doesn't that make you angry? Their wealth is meant to "trickle down" to the rest of us like crumbs to dogs under the table.

Is this what America wants?

* Source: Tim Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/04/geithner-america-is-less_n_670939.html

"The most affluent 400 earners in 2007 -- who earned an average of more than $340 million dollars each that year -- paid only 17 percent of their income in tax, a lower rate than many middle class families," he said. "The legacy of the crisis is millions of unemployed Americans, idled factories, a national debt swollen by eight years of deficit spending and growing income inequality."

"We live in one of the richest economies in the world," the Treasury Secretary continued. "But one in eight Americans is on food stamps today."

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