In reply: "As a percentage of income, the economic lower half of American households pays far more in all taxes than does, for instance, the top 1%. What you say is true, but only if you eliminate all other taxes than federal. You know this, yet you choose to peddle the same deliberate half truth. This leads me to believe that you don't respect "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth". Really, you are more than tiresome."

You didn't reply to my statements.  Which of my statements is untrue?  answer: none of them