Your figures are grossly inaccurate.
The "typical guy" making 50k pays an average 7-8% or $3,000-$4,000 in annual income taxes.
The typical rich guy making millions of dollars a year pays around 16%, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in income taxes.
Maybe that's why you're so bitter, you've been lied too so much.
yep, that's you lying to me right there and making me bitter. the tax rates you quote are bullshit.
let's focus even further on what gets taken out of our checks.
the average joe pays 6.2% of their income to social security.
mitt romney pays 6.2% of the first $108k or so of his income to social security, which totals to .03348% of his income.
if you applied that same tax rate to the average joe making $50k, that would be a savings of over $3,000 every year.
and if you applied average joe's tax rate to romney, social security would be solvent forever.
you sure have a knack for omitting any detail that does not have ronald reagan's spunk oozing off of it.
please do tell me about the successes of trickle down. who has benefited?