Why Don’t We See This as a Disaster?

Bill Moyers using a chart from Mother Jones using data from the Pew research poll (whew) tells us, Do you think the rich are paying their fair share in taxes? If so, you’re in the minority.

A Pew research poll found that about 60 percent of Americans — including about a third of Republicans — believe the rich are not paying their fair share. For contrast, 71 percent of those polled felt that lower-income Americans were either paying their fair share or paying too much, and 88 percent felt that middle-income Americans were paying their fair share or too much.

As this chart from Mother Jones shows, tax rates for the wealthy have fallen substantially since they peaked in 1940

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Obviously this is a follow up to the previous article.