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| Topic | 2% of America pays for 80% of its taxes. Should this be skewed more? |
| Bok_Choi 08/10/17 1:27:33 PM #11: | Darkman124 posted... Bok_Choi posted...individual income taxes. So you're saying that we need to tax corporations too, at a higher rate? I mean I'd agree. But All told, individual income taxes accounted for a little less than half (47.4%) of government revenue, a share that’s been roughly constant since World War II. The federal government collected $1.54 trillion from individual income taxes in fiscal 2015, making it the national government’s single-biggest revenue source. So it's pretty clear the individual income tax is really important http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/13/high-income-americans-pay-most-income-taxes-but-enough-to-be-fair/ --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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