mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:

> Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> wrote:
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>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
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>>>Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
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>>>>in article T7uAc.44199$tA6.15747@nwrddc03.gnilink.net, Kevin Wayne Williams
>>>>at kww.nihongo@verizon.nut wrote on 6/18/04 1:24 PM:
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>>>>>EIC can result in a refund greater than taxes paid in. That's a negative
>>>>>tax rate in my book. The citations that Mr. Fester posted concur, and
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>>>Uh, no  they don't. They cite AVERAGE rates for all people in the
>>>group.
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>>>I can see why you have problems with statistics, Mr Williams.
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>>>>>describe that tax burden on the bottom 20% of the population as negative.
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>>>>Does Mike realize that?
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>>>Do either you or Mr Williams realize that Earned Income Credit is not
>>>available to the income brackets on web page cited?
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>>>Do you two know what Earned Income Credit is?
>>
>>From the notest on table 1-9:
>>"The share of taxes paid by the lowest quintile is less than zero and is 
>>not shown."
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>>You need to read more carefully
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> There is no table 1-9 in either of
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> http://www.taxfoundation.org/prtopincometable.html
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> or
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> http://www.allegromedia.com/sugi/taxes/#Head-4.htm

More precisely: Figure 1-9 of 
http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3089&sequence=2

Or didn't you bother to read all of your sources?

KWW