That's right. Mitt Romney's running mate paid 6% more on his taxes than Romney paid on nearly 60 times the money.
From USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/...
In 2011, [Paul Ryan and his wife] reported an adjusted gross income of more than $323,000 and paid nearly $65,000 in federal taxes. In addition to Ryan's salary, the couple made more than $50,000 in investment income from capital gains and qualified dividends. They also made more than $116,000 in rental income, royalties and trust income. The couple owns rental property in Oklahoma, according to the return.
In contrast, Romney in 2010 paid only 13.9% federal income tax on roughly $20 million dollars, since most of that money came from capital gains which are taxed at a much lower rate than is earned income.
This certainly illustrates the unfairness in our system, when someone making 60 times the amount of money Paul Ryan made can actually pay a much smaller percentage of his income to the federal government.
And, of course, Romney's tax bill may have been even smaller in other years, but we'll never know since he refuses to release any further tax records at this point, though he "claims" never to have paid under 13.9% in other years.
What's amazing is that we have gotten to the point where that is now something to brag about.