If You Wonder

EarthPolicy.org reports: "Qatar, where more than half of the nation's income comes from oil and natural gas, has the world's highest average income: almost $103,000 per person. The United States and China have average incomes (as measured in GDP per person) of $48,000 and $8,000 per person, respectively. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, a failing state plagued by government corruption and violent conflict, has the world's lowest average income, at less than $350 per person. Thus the world's highest national average income is now almost 300 times the lowest."

In the United States consider those bringing home millions of dollars each year paying less taxes than the average American.