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At the end of day, what's not super helpful is a bunch of "Actually ..." comments in a disjointed thread on a clickbait article from a biased (pro-business clas
by kthejoker2 5y ago
At the end of day, what's not super helpful is a bunch of "Actually ..." comments in a disjointed thread on a clickbait article from a biased (pro-business class) source.
It would be a lot more helpful to just have some Snopes.com-style primer on "how Americans pay taxes."
Here are some examples - though I have not personally vetted any of these for bias, they seem to be based on a shared set of facts and designations, and are, if not neutral, then also not clearly pushing a particular agenda.
* https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/who-pays-taxes https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/who-pays-taxes
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivity_in_United_States_income_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivity_in_United_States...
* https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2019/ https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2019/
* https://www.cbpp.org/research/misconceptions-and-realities-about-who-pays-taxes https://www.cbpp.org/research/misconceptions-and-realities-a... (This one is the closest to a Snopes-style "debunking" of the "61% paid no income taxes" headline)