The United States is more dependent on its rich to pay
taxes than even many of the more socialized economies of Europe.
According to the Tax Foundation, the United States gets 45 percent of
its total taxes from the top 10 percent of tax filers, whereas the
international average in industrialized nations is 32 percent.
America’s rich carry a larger share of the tax burden than do the
rich
in Belgium (25 percent), Germany (31 percent), France (28 percent),
and even Sweden (27 percent).

This conclusion is inconsistent with the liberal mantra that top
earners in the U.S. are not paying their "fair share" in taxes.

"A lie told often enough becomes truth"

Vladimir Lenin quotes (Russian Founder of the Russian Communist

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