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Including all those taxes, the top 20% still pay 66% of all taxes. https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2019/04/chart-2-1555038431.jpg?auto=compre
by WillPostForFood 7y ago
Including all those taxes, the top 20% still pay 66% of all taxes.
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- GcVmvNhBsU 7y agoThe top 20% also owns 86% of the wealth, so it seems like they are still coming out ahead.
- jessaustin 7y agoWell, they do have all the money. Besides, the 19.9% shouldn't complain to the 80%. Rather, they should complain to the 0.1% whose lobbyists write the tax code in the first place. We can be sure they had their reasons to set up this level of progressive taxation rather than some other level.