{"content":[{"text":"folks are getting a break. But I don’t want to pick a fight \n with my liberal friends over whether the wealthiest Americans \n “deserve” a tax break or not. I have come to praise The Rich, \n not to bury them.","bbox":{"left":0.071429,"top":0.056562,"width":0.857068,"height":0.09082499999999999}},{"text":"I offer a few numbers to make my case:","bbox":{"left":0.071429,"top":0.168809,"width":0.518792,"height":0.018665999999999988}},{"text":"Did you know that the top one percent of American wage earners \n (adjusted gross income) pay about 38 percent of all our \n federal personal taxes (according to the National Taxpayer \n Union)? The top one percent, by the way, account for 23.5 \n percent of all income — a substantial amount, yes, but \n considerably less than 38 percent.","bbox":{"left":0.071429,"top":0.208898,"width":0.857083,"height":0.138931}},{"text":"Or that the top five percent pay just under 60 percent?","bbox":{"left":0.071429,"top":0.369251,"width":0.750884,"height":0.018666000000000016}},{"text":"Or that the top ten percent pay about 70 percent of all the \n personal income taxes collected in this great land of ours?","bbox":{"left":0.071429,"top":0.40934,"width":0.857083,"height":0.04271900000000001}},{"text":"These “fat-cats” are the ones who do the heavy lifting in this \n country. They’re the ones whose federal tax dollars pick up a \n big chunk of the tab for all sorts of noble things, such as: \n food for folks who don’t have enough to eat … medicine and \n doctors for people with little money … financial aid to help \n other people’s kids go to college … milk and diapers for poor \n babies whose 15 year-old mothers and deadbeat fathers are too \n irresponsible to take care of their own kids … a safety net \n for old folks who are retired on fixed incomes … and on and \n on.","bbox":{"left":0.071429,"top":0.473481,"width":0.8571770000000001,"height":0.23514299999999994}},{"text":"And if they “only” bank their new found savings instead of \n spending it all over town? Well, that’s a plus too. It means \n there would be more money out there for businesses to borrow \n for expansion, which probably would mean more jobs. Or it \n could mean more money for new homeowners to borrow, which \n would also give a boost to the limp economy.","bbox":{"left":0.071429,"top":0.730047,"width":0.857083,"height":0.13893099999999992}},{"text":"No, I’m not saying the wealthiest \n selfless philanthropists. But","bbox":{"left":0.071429,"top":0.8904,"width":0.45586299999999996,"height":0.04271899999999995}},{"text":"Americans are all a bunch of \n try to imagine an America","bbox":{"left":0.541448,"top":0.8904,"width":0.387138,"height":0.04271899999999995}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}