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Chrkeller said:
GoOnKid said:

A manager, a worker and an immigrant sit at a table in a bar. The bartender brings a plate with 20 cookies. The manager instantly grabs 19 and whispers to the worker: watch out, that immigrant is eyeing your cookie. 

The other version is they order a plate of cookies for $20.  The manager pays $19.50, the worker pays 0.50 and complains the manager isn't paying a fair share.  

*top 10% already pay 72% of taxes

Source, please? Even if true, it should still be higher. The top10% can easily afford it.

I don't know much about your country, however, wikipedia says the the Total effective federal tax rate (includes corporate income and excise taxes) for that top 10% has been between 21.6% and 29.4% in 2010. I don't know if these numbers grew a lot until now, I can't imagine they did. 

The top tax rate in Germany is 45%, by the way, and even that is way too low.