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comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

just a reminder that total taxation as a share of income is already pretty flat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/19/heres-why-the-47-percent-argument-is-an-abuse-of-tax-data/

politicians and the media tends to focus purely on the federal income tax though in order to make disingenuous arguments for slashing taxes for the wealthy

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comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

related resources:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-most-misleading-part-of-the-47-total-us-taxes-are-barely-progressive/262536/
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-how-the-states-destroy-the-fairness-20150413-column.html

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