It is about time that we have some ammunition to throw at the uneducated poor that believe that those taxes the rich avoid somehow means the poor will get more money in their pockets. It is only Fair that those that receive the most benefits pay the most in taxes, it makes little difference who is in charge when you merely exist.

Some folks, particularly the mega-rich, will probably choose to ignore these statistics or challenge their validity. If this situation continues, I'd wager that paying for health care reform will be the least of our worries.

The great and growing disparity of wealth is a sign of deterioration of our society.

It is insightful but no surprising as the US has a history of the growing gap between the ri ch and poor but it nevers get addressed.

This is something you will never hear about on Fox News or from the right wing propaganda machine amidst their attacks on Obama as a Socialist. And if it is covered at all by the mainstream media it will be buried in the papers and just a blurb on the network news. Yet it is the results of 8 years of Republican rule, and if you are in the top 1%, it doesn't matter that the Bush neglect of regulating the economy and his unprecedented foreign policy failures have brought this country ... More »