This past election year was full of talk of taxes and economic hard times. The phrase “the wealthy don’t pay their fair share in taxes” was mentioned so many times, I have lost count. I am a math geek, so naturally I decided to look into the IRS tax tables (Page 37, table 7) to see what every politician, newscaster, and talk show host were talking about when they said, “the wealthy don’t pay their fair share in taxes.”
