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Old 07-07-2008, 10:12 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dub
Thats incredibly convoluted logic if you ask me and even more vague than the original statistic. I don't think you can really tell much of anything from what you just said because because it relies on a ton of supposition.
if the stat is based on household income and the taxes being discussed in this thread are based on individual income, why does it not stand to reason that less than 5% of income earners will be subject to these taxes? what's convoluted about that? is it unreasonable to assume that there are more households whose income earners gross nearly 200k combined than there are individual income earners who gross nearly 200k alone?

edit: and yes, this is all based on the assumption that the stat is correct and it pertains to gross household income rather than individual income. if that's the case, i'm only pointing out that it's not comparing apples to oranges as you said.
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