Posting this a day later, so probably won't get seen much, but I just looked at my 2017 tax return. I made ~$80k USD and because of various tax incentives (3 c

Posting this a day later, so probably won't get seen much, but I just looked at my 2017 tax return. I made ~$80k USD and because of various tax incentives (3 children mainly), I paid almost exactly the $1650 ($1683) figure you mentioned for federal income tax. So my intuition is that the tax burden for most poor families is almost nothing.