Prepare to throw up a little. Can anyone look at these graphs and say with a straight face that America doesn't have significant problems when it comes to taxation and wealth distribution?

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

PS. I'm not crazy about Mother Jones but they're just sourcing others' information. The charts are hard to refute.

The richest country in the world?

Tagged for later.

Terrible. You guys should do something about that!

Protest! It's the in thing

Well, the introduction of a flat tax rate would benefit just about everybody, if set at the right level, excluding the top richest. I think the most important part out of all that, however, is the wealth of congress. Here's also an article displaying the individual wealths of all the Presidents:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/05/the-net-worth-of-the-us-presidents-from-washington-to-obama/57020/

The American political system needs to be reformed as to give people from all backgrounds a greater chance of getting into the top political positions. Publicly funded elections would be a start.

As for the wealth statistics, I don't think they would be regarded as that bad if inflation wasn't so ugly, right now. It's inflation that's really hurting the bottom 80%, which is a result of a fiat monetary system... which is a result of the wealthy dominating the political system.

And what's wrong with wealth distribution, what made you cry? If you want to be in the top, you should stop posting red propaganda and start working hard. It's capitalism here, you know. Don't be fucking commy, it's sick.

I blame Bush

Either you're joking or your reading comprehension is very, very low, only surpassed by your inability to read a graph.

Whats funny is that they show the effective tax rate for the super-rich, but never state how much they actually pay in taxes by comparison to any other group.

Of course, God forbid they show anything to be balanced. They pick and chose what charts to show so they could argue that we need to soak the rich more, rather than provide a balanced analysis about both incomes and taxes. 

Where's the chart that shows the top 1% paying a majority of income taxes?

Where's the chart that shows that the Regan and Bush tax cuts forced the rich to pay a higher percentage taxes to the government that before the cuts?

The only thing that chart told me was that payroll taxes are crazy in America, and need destroyed. They are why your average family is getting killed. Funny, they don't mention anything about payroll taxes, despite they have increased 4-fold since the 50s.