If top 5% paid 40% of taxes, what is their ‘fair’ share?

Editorial The Washington Examiner 11/22/2012

…Although Obama and his fellow Democrats repeatedly call on wealthier Americans to pay their “fair share,” they never specify what percentage of the nation’s tax burden the wealthy would have to bear. As matters stand, the top 1 percent of American households paid 39 percent of income taxes in 2009, […]

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