claim: middle-class americans "pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires."
author: tammy baldwin
evidence_1: taxing investment income at a much lower rate than salaries and wages are  taxed loses ... children, we should ask millionaires to pay a tax rate at least as  high their secretary's. ... and billionaires pay a lower tax rate than average  american families. ... bigger tax breaks for the same tax deductions taken by the  middle class.
evidence_2: jan 15, 2015 ... ... and middle-income households at significantly higher rates than wealthy  taxpayers." ... middle class americans—or those in the middle 20 percent—pay ...  all taxes would almost certainly show that the wealthy pay more than the rest. ...  or mansion tax and saying millionaires pay all the taxes in america.
evidence_3: oct 12, 2011 ... “most americans think millionaires ought to be paying a higher rate than ...  analysis of federal tax data since billionaire investor warren buffett, ... pays a  significantly higher effective tax rate than middle-class families do.
evidence_4: apr 13, 2016 ... high-income americans pay most income taxes, but enough to be 'fair'? by drew  ... what they get from the federal government, versus 40% who said they pay  more than their fair share. ... their average tax rate (total taxes paid divided by  cumulative agi) was 25.7%. ... are you in the american middle class?
evidence_5: sep 21, 2011 ... warren buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than warren buffett. ... it  is wrong that in the united states of america, a teacher or a nurse or a ... that in  general middle-class families were paying more in taxes than millionaires. ... that  billionaires are paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries?