Election 2012

Tax Inequality on the Romney/Ryan Ticket

Via Benen:

Paul Ryan's income in 2010: $215,417
Paul Ryan's effective tax rate in 2010: 15.9%

Mitt Romney's income in 2010: $20 million
Mitt Romney's effective tax rate in 2010: 13.9%

Mitt Romney paid 2% less in taxes while earning 100 times more money.

Paul Ryan should be pissed! But he's not. In fact, if he had his way, he'd reduce Romney's tax burden even more. You know, because Romney and other people in the 1% of the 1% are starving to death.