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Originally posted by taxwonk
As I noted a few days ago, looking at the total share of taxes doesn't really measure the disparity in the tax cuts. You have to compare effective tax rates. The top 1% of filers enjoyed a 6% drop in their effective tax rate. The middle class got less than 1%.
And really, Bilmore. I responded to one of your posts with a simple recitation of facts. You call that "false class warfare hysteria." Who's engaging in hyperbole here?
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I note that you like to discuss these issues in terms that do not readily reveal what your numbers really mean. Thus, you don't like to see that your hated rich pay almost three quarters of all taxes paid in this country. It's safer - less revealing - to use your "more accurate" statistic that can be recited in a vacuum.
There simply isn't all that much tax left to cut in the lower groups. When the top earners are already made to shoulder the vast majority of the burden, of course any cut is going to fall to their benefit.
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