I don't believe it.

What it does illustrate, however, is that one reason the bottom 50% don't get a lot of tax relief is because they aren't paying any to begin with. This is why we disguise welfare in the form of "tax credits" these days (EITC).

Millionaire farmers getting rich off of farm subsidies.

I'm supposed to cry over them paying taxes?

Unfortunately, most of the poor are poor because of the sum of their life choices. Taxing the bejeezus out of the rich isn't going to alter that.

Like me and my family?

Amen, brother.

You and your family are poor? I guess we'd better define "poor". Poor aren't entry level workers who just graduated from college and whose profession has a salary range upper end of several hundred thousand dollars a year.

No, I'm not poor.

But I was relatively low on the totem pole growing up.

My father took his first job after graduate school, in the 20k range. High 20k I think. Then he lost his job when the economy turned south in Texas during the oil bust.

What were the wrong choices he made?

I never went hungry so I wasn't truly poor.

Well, I didn't say "all", so I'm not going to respond to every counterexample you want to conjure up.

My wife for a time was truly poor and it was because of some of the choices her dad made.

I "conjured" up my own life experience?

I don't know how old your father is, but depending on the time frame, 20k is a very respectable salary.