Do 長官s REALLY 支払う／賃金 more 税金, Mr 大統領? Data shows most 豊富な Americans 支払う／賃金 more than middle class

By Associated 圧力（をかける）
Updated: 21:05 BST, 20 September 2011

大統領 Barack Obama （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he wants to make sure millionaires are 税金d at higher 率s than their 長官s.

によれば data, however, they already are.

'過密な住居 Buffett's 長官 shouldn't 支払う／賃金 a higher 税金 率 than 過密な住居 Buffett. There is no justification for it,' Obama said as he 発表するd his 赤字-削減 計画（する） this week.

'It is wrong that in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction 労働者 who earns $50,000 should 支払う／賃金 higher 税金 率s than somebody pulling in $50 million.'

計画（する）s: The 大統領, pictured speaking yesterday, said there was 'no justification' for a millionaire's 長官 支払う／賃金ing more 税金 than their boss

On 普通の／平均（する）, the wealthiest people in America 支払う／賃金 a lot more 税金s than the middle class or the poor, によれば 私的な and 政府 data. They 支払う／賃金 at a higher 率, and as a group, they 与える／捧げる a much larger 株 of the 全体にわたる 税金s collected by the 連邦の 政府.

The 10 per cent of 世帯s with the highest incomes 支払う／賃金 more than half of all 連邦の 税金s. They 支払う／賃金 more than 70 per cent of 連邦の 所得税s, によれば the 連邦議会の 予算 Office.

In his White House 演説（する）／住所 on Monday, Mr Obama called on 議会 to 増加する 税金s by $1.5 一兆 as part of a 10-year 赤字 削減 一括 totalling more than $3 一兆.

He 提案するd that 議会 精密検査する the 税金 code and 課す what he called the 'Buffett 支配する,' 指名するd after the 億万長者 inves tor.

The 支配する says, 'People making more than $1 million a year should not 支払う／賃金 a smaller 株 of their income in 税金s than middle-class families 支払う／賃金.' Buffett wrote in a 最近の piece for The New York Times that the 税金 率 he paid last year was lower than that paid by any of the other 20 people in his office.

'Middle-class families shouldn't 支払う／賃金 higher 税金s than millionaires and 億万長者s,' Mr Obama said. 'That's pretty straightforward. It's hard to argue against that.'

There may be individual millionaires who 支払う／賃金 税金s at 率s lower than middle-income 労働者s. In 2009, 1,470 世帯s とじ込み／提出するd 税金 returns with incomes above $1 million yet paid no 連邦の 所得税, によれば the 内部の 歳入 Service. But that's いっそう少なく than 1 per cent of the nearly 237,000 returns with incomes above $1 million.

This year, 世帯s making more than $1 million will 支払う／賃金 an 普通の／平均（する） of 29.1 per cent of their income in 連邦の 税金s, 含むing 所得税s, payroll 税金s and other 税金s, によれば the 税金 政策 中心, a Washington think 戦車／タンク.

世帯s making between $50,000 and $75,000 will 支払う／賃金 an 普通の／平均（する） of 15 per cent of their income in 連邦の 税金s.

Support: 億万長者 financier and Berkshire Hathaway 大統領 過密な住居 Buffett said the rich must 支払う／賃金 more 税金s in America

の中で the roses: 大統領 Obama makes a 声明 about his 提案するd 連邦の defict 削減 計画（する）

Lower-income 世帯s will 支払う／賃金 いっそう少なく. For example, 世帯s making between $40,000 and $50,000 will 支払う／賃金 an 普通の／平均（する） of 12.5 per cent of their income in 連邦の 税金s. 世帯s making between $20,000 and $30,000 will 支払う／賃金 5.7 パーセント.

The 最新の IRS 人物／姿／数字s are a few years older - and 限られた／立憲的な to 連邦の 所得税s - but show much the same thing. In 2009, taxpayers who made $1 million or more paid on 普通の／平均（する） 24.4 per cent of their income in 連邦の 所得税s, によれば the IRS.

Those making $100,000 to $125,000 paid on 普通の／平均（する） 9.9 per cent in 連邦の 所得税s. Those making $50,000 to $60,000 paid an 普通の／平均（する） of 6.3 per cent.

Obama's （人命などを）奪う，主張する hinges on the fact that, for high-income families and individuals, 投資 income is often 税金d at a lower 率 than 給料. The 最高の，を越す 税金 率 for （株主への）配当s and 資本／首都 伸び（る）s is 15 per cent. The 最高の，を越す ごくわずかの 税金 率 for 給料 is 35 per cent, though that is reserved for taxable income above $379,150.

With 税金 率s that high, why do so many people 支払う／賃金 at lower 率s? Because the 税金 code is riddled with more than $1 一兆 in deductions, 控除s and credits, and they 利益 people at every income level, によれば data from the 非，不，無-同志／支持者 共同の 委員会 on 課税, 議会's 公式の／役人 scorekeeper on 歳入 問題／発行するs.

The 税金 政策 中心 見積（る）s that 46 パーセント of 世帯s, mostly low- and medium-income 世帯s, will 支払う／賃金 no 連邦の 所得税s this year. Most, however, will 支払う／賃金 other 税金s, 含むing Social 安全 payroll 税金s.

'People who are doing やめる 井戸／弁護士席 and worry about low-income people not 支払う／賃金ing any 税金s bemoan the fact that they get so many 税金 breaks that they are 無d out,' said Roberton Williams, a 上級の fellow at the 税金 政策 中心.

'People at the bo ttom of the 配当 say, 'But all of those rich guys are getting bigger 税金 breaks than we're getting,' which is also the 事例／患者.'

財務省 長官 Timothy Geithner was 圧力（をかける）d at a White House 要点説明 on the number of millionaires who 支払う／賃金 税金s at a lower 率 than middle-income families. He demurred, 説 that people who make most of their money in 給料 支払う／賃金 税金s at a higher 率, while those who get most of their income from 投資s 支払う／賃金 at lower 率s.

'So it really depends on what is your profession, where's the source of your income, what's the 明確な／細部 circumstances you 直面する, and the 普通の／平均（する）s won't really 逮捕（する） that,' Geithner said.