David Cay Johnston (NYT) on with Bernie now -- tax laws for the rich

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http://www.kgoam810.com/complexshowdj.asp?DJID=3284

Here's DCJ:


http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7849201.htm

Now comes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston with a thorough examination of another way in which the rich differ from low-income, middle-income and merely affluent people. Johnston shows in his book, ``Perfectly Legal,'' that Americans who have the most money pay less of it in taxes than other Americans.

``The tax system is being used by the rich, through their allies in Congress, to shift risks off themselves and onto everyone else,'' Johnston writes. ``And perhaps worst of all, our tax system now forces most Americans to subsidize the lifestyles of the very rich, who enjoy the benefits of our democracy without paying their fair share of its price.''

Although Johnston agrees that the rich pay most of the income taxes, he insists that they do not pay a disproportionately large share of the tax burden.

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