If you are in the top one percent, you pay a rate of 5.3 percent.
The top one percent of earners pays 36.7 percent of all income taxes collected.
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Part of it is paid for by rolling back the Bush tax cuts on the top one percent.
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On one side, the top one percent of the firms (those employing more than 500 workers) are doing well.
The top one percent pay about 38 percent of all federal income taxes.
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The top one percent of earners already pay about 40% of income taxes.
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The top one percent of the income distribution captured fully 52% of the income gains during that 15-year period.
Average after-tax incomes would, in fact, be almost exactly the same for taxpayers in every income category except for those in the top one percent.
The issue is not how much the top one percent own.
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In fact, the average income for the top one percent of Americans has risen almost seven times faster than the income of the average middle class family.
In terms of types of financial wealth, the top one percent of households have 38.3% of all privately held stock, 60.6% of financial securities, and 62.4% of business equity.
According to a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office, the top one percent of earners pays 22.3 percent of income taxes and an average rate of 28.9 percent.
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That feeling is exacerbated when we keep hearing how the top one percent has managed to do increasingly well, with special tax breaks and special investment opportunities while many of us are experiencing flattened incomes or worse.
It also uses legislative activity to address current concerns over how wealth is distributed in the US. The net wealth of the top one percent comprises of about 35 percent of all privately held wealth in the US, while the top 20 percent hold 85 percent.
There was so much money involved, and some of it even trickled down to us, a small amount that allowed us to live among the top one-percent of the wealthiest in the world.
The wealthiest top one percent pays 36.7 percent of income taxes.
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At the very top - the top 10th of one percent - the multiple was far higher.
Hedge-fund managers have made so much money for themselves that they are in the top percent of the one percent.
Considering that 40 percent of new jobs come from the top-performing one percent of companies in any given year, this bill could unlock possibilities that go far beyond the bottom line for corporations and institutions.
Sadly, the big money in our country is made by the top one tenth of 1 percent or the 99.9 percentile.
The top 33.3 percent could find a place in one of the California State Universities, which were also tuition-free.
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Today the top one, five, and ten percent of households pay 4.7, 12.7, and 20.7 percent, respectively, of excise taxes.
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That top 1 percent -- in fact, that top one-tenth of 1 percent, those are the main folks who have seen their incomes skyrocket over the last 10, 15 years.
The Election Complaints Commission declared that neither candidate got 50 percent, although one came very close, and that the top two candidates were President Karzai and Dr. Abdullah and they should have a runoff.
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Health spending (unlike that of gadgets and snack) happens to be highly concentrated, with the top 1 percent of spenders each year accounting for more than one quarter of all spending.
Three innings later, a star rose to the top in the name of Evan Longoria and the Rays did what they had a less than one percent chance of doing.
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One approach is to get more students in front of top teachers by identifying the top 25 percent of teachers and asking them to take on four or five more students.
And one red line is he will not sign into law an extension of tax cuts for the top 2 percent.
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