Who pays a higher percentage of their income in taxes?

It's not a meaningful question. Since you are including ll forms of tax, including consumption (sales) taxes, we cannot know without knowing how much of their income the rich are spending on items which incur those taxes. The wealthy sometimes have ways to shelter income, but not outflow.

In any event, it annoys me when people criticize the wealthy (and I'm certainly not in that category myself) for avoiding taxes through shelters and tax incentives. Those items exist because Congress (or the states in some cases) WANT money to flow to certain places, and offer a tax incentive to encourage that. If we removed all such incentives and tax shelters, the government would lose any ability to attempt to move the economy in a certain direction. For example, dividends from companies are taxed at a lower rate in most countries. This is to encourage investment in companies, and without it, there would likely be a money crunch, with investment curtailed. That is NEVER good for an economy.

Lets say the tax rate was 10% and the poor guy making $20k a year would only pay $2k in taxes while the guy making $2 million a year pays $200K a year so the rich person would pay more in taxes.

As always, those who pay no attention to details ignore all the taxes they pay that are not Income Taxes paid to the Federal Government. When speaking of taxes, you need to include all the taxes you pay.

When you count all the taxes you pay every time you spend, the POOR pay the highest percentage because they must spend the largest percentage of their income on the necessities of life and save or invest the smallest percentage of their income.

The poor don't write the tax laws. They do vote for the politicians that spend too much.

Therefore I have no qualms about moderately increasing the taxes on the very rich. They influence Congress who makes the laws. They should pay for the Government they dominate.

Corporations should pay No Taxes because they just pass that expense on to the end user (the poor) in the form of mark-ups and the poor suffer even more.

All income belongs to individuals, not businesses. Tax the Individual accordingly.

Hold on there. If you are single and make 20,000 dollars chances are at least 5% if not a lot more of your income goes to federal income tax after tax returns. At that income level you have to have children or other significant tax credit to avoid income taxes.

Working class

In percentage terms, probably the 20K a year person, in terms of actual cash especially with capital gains thrown in, definitely the millionaire.

Don't forget that Romney wants to eliminate tax loopholes.

ok.....

.... but other than giving you a single talking point and subjective number to reinforce a sense of victimhood.... what does that "percentage" really mean?

...does it mean that the person earning $20,000 is actualy paying $350,000 in taxes, like my "rich' friend did last year?

...does it change the fact that tax codes have always taken into account contribution to the economy? For example... you DO know that when an "evil rich" person "hoards" his money in a bank, that bank uses that money to fund loans and offer better rates to the account holders making $20,000.... right?

...you DO know that investing $200,000 in a factory that employs 200 workers contributes more to the economy than giving 200 workers $1,000 each....right?

so once again.... other than reinforcing a FEELING of injustice, what's your point?

Anyone who does not have enough money to use the built in loopholes in the tax schedules

50,000 millionaires pay a lower tax rate than I do.

Romney pays a little more than half the tax rate I do.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/economy/buffett-rule

The rich. I have paid no federal taxes in years. That is, we get a refund because of kids and such.