Gerry <222ggg@spam.really.sucks> wrote in message news:<190620041542151699%222ggg@spam.really.sucks>...
> In article <BCF46D9F.1C45B%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp>, Ernest Schaal
> <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> > Bottom line: Even under the reduced tax rates, the rich still not only pay
> > more taxes than the poor, they also pay at a higher rate than the poor.
> 
> If they don't have a tax attorney juggling the details they might
> actually have to pay some taxes.  "Taxes" as Leona Helmsley once said,
> "are for the little people."

It is a myth that the rich don't pay taxes. They try to reduce the
amount of taxes that they pay, but the IRS is very successful in
thrawting their efforts. Even the data supplied by Mike show that the
rich pay a LOT of taxes.

As to your quote by Leona Helmsley, remember what happened to her.