| numberwang said: The headline shows a fundamental lack of understanding how taxes work. Poor incomes already have 100% tax cuts and pay no taxes. With the Trump plan you will pay no taxes for up to 50K$ family income which is quite nice for poor and middle class. High incomers will get most of the tax cuts because they pay most of the taxes. The Top 1% continues to pay a larger share of the federal income tax burden than the bottom 90 percent combined https://taxfoundation.org/official-statistics-inequality-top-1-and-redistribution/ |
How does the change on that graph compare to the change in the comparative shares of income of those groups over time? This is not a rhetorical question.
P.S. Regarding "pay no taxes", I get the feeling you are talking about Mitt Romney's 47% (that don't pay income taxes). I believe you'll find that "pay no taxes" isn't generally true of this group when you consider things like payroll taxes. I don't believe that income taxes should be viewed in a vacuum, disregarding other taxes and their combined overall impact, but you may disagree.
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