[lisasays]

Fun chart. Let's take your math up a notch, shall we?

Because you know - the share of taxes paid also has a distribution within the upper 50 percent. Using that fun table you posted, let's see how 100b splits across the following 3 segments:

  Top 5%     - [95,100)  62 billion
  Upper 45   - [50,95)   35 billion 
  Bottom 50: - [0,50)     3 billion

If you're in the top 5% - screw you, I don't want to hear your whining about having to pay your fair share to support matters of this nature.

If you're in the upper 45 - I can see how $1200 would start to hurt. But that's not what the math says. Which is that there are 157.5m of you pooling together for a 35b share of the tab. Which comes out to $222.22 per head.

Is that what you're so indignant about?