I was primarily concerned about the tax brackets everyone's arguing about, not the "wealth gap," so inflation didn't really come into it. The chart you linked to does seem to be in constant 2007 dollars.
The CBO page (I linked to) is significant because it's one of the only places I've seen where they pull payroll taxes into the mix. "Federal taxes" in those charts are all of the Federal taxes.
Nobody is arguing that the wealthy have haven't gotten richer faster than the lower brackets, but the general trend all around has been upward (of course this chart only goes up to 2007). EDIT: Fixed typo
It's not like if the rich hadn't gotten richer, somehow the lower brackets would have gotten that slice of pie instead. It doesn't work like that.
EDIT: Hmmm. This chart may actually have come from the numbers in the table you linked.
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- So Romney's paying...
- Romney paid over $6 million in Federal taxes in the past two years.
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- Just for fun
- Be careful of the terminology. (EDITED FOR CORRECTION)
- One more time if you don’t mind
- define:progressive tax rate, define:regressive tax rate
- What?
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- You do love that red herring, don't you?
- About the definitions, you were right and I was wrong.
- And I spoke too soon
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- Yeah, those look like "my" numbers.
- The problem with defending markets here is that too many people can't think outside the "managed economy" box.
- Yeah, those look like "my" numbers.
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- And I spoke too soon
- About the definitions, you were right and I was wrong.
- You do love that red herring, don't you?
- I don't mind wealthy people paying more taxes than people who aren't. I never did.
- define:progressive tax rate, define:regressive tax rate
- One more time if you don’t mind
- Be careful of the terminology. (EDITED FOR CORRECTION)
- Tax rates of presidential candidates
- Romney paid over $6 million in Federal taxes in the past two years.