Personal income tax stats

Okay, let's try this again, only this time we will make the spreadsheet narrower so you don't have to scroll across.

These are numbers the IRS released this week about personal income taxes paid in 2005. I offer them as people talk about "tax cuts for the rich" vs. decreasing the tax burden for the poor and all those other arguments that are more about the argument than about tax policy itself.

Make from this chart what you will. Please remember that "returns" means just that. I did not differentiate between married filing jointly and married filing separately or whatever.

This chart contains a lot of calculations that I did. If you want to see the entire original chart with the original numbers as an Excel chart, go here.

And now, the revised spreadsheet: