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[QUOTE="hackmeplz, post: 1951872, member: 89075"]
Just because it's the lowest since the 1920s means it's fair? during the Jim Crow era blacks were freer than they had been in history. Was that an argument against fighting those laws? Obviously there are some loopholes and the whole capital gains issue makes some mega-rich people pay very low tax rates (lol Romney) but in general people who make 200-500k/yr and don't pay capital gains end up paying a higher percentage of their income on taxes. The fact is that even with a strictly flat tax it would still be slightly unfair to the richer people, because someone making 2x the salary of someone else generally is not getting 2x the benefits. The police don't respond to their 911 calls twice as fast. The roads aren't twice as nice. But in reality they pay several times the amount generally. I don't see how that's fair.

[url]http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-individual-income-tax-data-0[/url]

The top 1% make 16.9% of the gross income in the country while they pay 36.7% of the taxes. How is that fair?
Meanwhile the bottom 50% make 13.5% of the gross income while they pay 2.3% of the taxes.

This is not unique to just those 2 groups. Just look at the chart.

So I'm not sure why you seem to think the rich paying more and the poor/middle-class paying less is the answer. Just because we used to make the rich pay for everything doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, and although I don't think Romney is the answer and I don't even think he understands economics at all, the Obama approach of "oh let's just tax (steal) from the rich and we'll be fine" is the class warfare, not the other side.
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