If you believe in a progressive tax system, they should be paying a lot more than 25 percent, because when one percent of the population gets 22 percent of the entire country's income, more than the entire lower 50 percent, that is such a massive economic dislocation.
Whitehouse argues for higher taxes on the wealthy to address economic inequality.
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