As you can see from this post that Lisa wrote, The top 5% – or those making more than $153,000 – pay 60% of all federal income taxes. Compare that figure with this source that finds the top 5%, or those making $153,542 , pay 60.14% of all federal income taxes. I think it is safe to say that $153,000 is the bottom of the 5% bracket, with both sources citing $388,000 as the low end of the top 1%. $100,000 is not even in the top 10%. Now cames Mark Penn with Most affluent voters key to Obama sweep
Barack Obama promised he would lower taxes for 95 percent of Americans and presumably raise them for the 5 percent who benefited most under President Bush’s tax policies. But, remarkably, the most affluent 5 percent supported Obama and that was perhaps the key to his victory last week.
This group — and the rise of a new elite class of voters — is at the heart of the fast-paced changes in demographics affecting the political, sociological and economic landscape of the country. While there has been some inflation over the past 12 years, the exit poll demographics show that the fastest growing group of voters in America has been those making over $100,000 a year in income.
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