the top 1% in the US earn 21% of all income earned in the US.
You'd predict they pay _____% of all income tax paid in the US
- <10%33.3%
- 11-21%11.7%
- 21-30%13%
- 31%+42.1%
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By earned I mean, somebody somewhere decided to give the person money in exchange for value the person provided to that somebody..
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you mean they earn money because they invested their money into something that ended up being successful?
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yeah, i mean seems to fall into "somebody somewhere decided to give the person money in exchange for value the person provided to that somebody"; they agreed to provide a % of profits in exchange for the value of earlier support; this falls into my concept of 'earning'