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You predict, in America in 2018, the top 1% paid ____ of all federal income taxes

<10%
33.7%
11-20%
16.8%
21-30%
13.8%
31%+
35.6%

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Poor people should pay more taxes? Because they aren't poor enough yet I guess. They also pay plenty of taxes, they just don't pay federal income tax because they don't make much money. They pay FICA, state taxes, sales taxes, and many other taxes.

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And it's a shame that this money isn't going directly to help the poor; can you imagine if government bureaucracy didn't absorb all the wealth of the 1%? The percentage of benefit that the bottom poorest actually receive is negligible compared to the amount the top are paying.

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Poor people are selected for being bad with money though. Possibly even worse than the government.

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Wait, "all the wealth of the 1%"? More like an amount they can only notice is missing on paper.

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This seems like one of the major problems with socialism. Good intentions, but government bureaucrats aren’t good at spending money.

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