1) This is not new. Voters have ALWAYS wanted the rich to buy them more benefits 2) Most who complain the rich do not pay their "fair share" wildly underestimate the share of all taxes currently paid by the rich 3) They will be disappointed in how little revenue would be raisedhttps://twitter.com/morningmoneyben/status/1092393771520663553 …
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The U.S. has by far the most progressive taxes in the OECD -- even adjusting for America's income inequality leading to a more progressive tax distribution And this does not even include the steep VAT taxes that make European taxes even less progressive relative to the U.S.pic.twitter.com/5nWY5HGMR3
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Because people are ignoring the OCED chart and claiming I am ignoring rising income inequality.... The chart below divides the tax distribution by the income distribution. Same story.pic.twitter.com/QuPYSWcpeY
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Nobody cares about that. They care about effective tax rates, which are higher in the upper middle class than the 1%. This chart only shows how bad inequality is.
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Perhaps read the whole thread.
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i think leaving out the chart about how income is distributed is very telling
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There OECD chart below adjusts for that.
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those numbers only have context when distribution numbers are included
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Right and with a $21,982,423,036,475.23 debt it is not enough.
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