Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich
If we want shared sacrifice, maybe we should ask people at the bottom to share as well. Anecdotes of Warren Buffet's office aside, in general the richest people pay the largest proportion of taxes.<p>We already lean quite heavily on the top 1% - the top 1% actually pays more in taxes than the bottom 90%.<p><a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/22652.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/22652.html</a><p>A graph of the data in that article:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/wa8uu.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/wa8uu.png</a><p>In terms of taxation of the top 10%, the US is the most progressive country in the OECD.<p><a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/27134.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/27134.html</a><p>Maybe the tax code needs tweaking at the level of the top 400, but it's very progressive up to the level of the top 1%.