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my mom’s boyfriend is super conservative and tried to make a point to me today, and i just want to ask here if someone can explain to me i his point was valid or if there’s misinformation/missing context. so, he asked me: “if you had to guess what-
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Anonymous 20w

That seems approximately correct, but that’s only for income taxes. Poor people still have to pay grocery taxes and gas taxes and other taxes that aren’t income.

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Anonymous 20w

- percentage of taxes are paid by the lower 50% of the population, meaning those who earn the least, what would you guess it is?” and i really had no idea because this isn’t something i’ve ever researched. so i answered him, and said, “maybe 30%?” (sorry if this is obviously wrong to you, it wasn’t to me) and he laughed at me and said “no, it’s actually only 2%. think about the rhetoric that’s being thrown at you by the liberals.” i just want to know if there’s information he left out just to-

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Anonymous 20w

What #1 said, plus you gotta take into account how much of someone’s paycheck is actually going into taxes. Yeah the rich put more in, but the lower brackets are hurting way more by paying their share

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

make me feel stupid :(

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

like i feel like one obvious answer is that the super wealthy are paying a lot more in taxes, but maybe not with the same ratio that those with lower income do. like, some people in this country are SO WEALTHY it’s genuinely unfathomable. of course they’re going to be paying significantly more in taxes.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

But like, if you think about it this isn’t surprising at all. The people who aren’t making much money won’t have a lot of money to be taxed. It’s completely logical

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

“Lower 50% of the population” is misinformation. 2% of taxes are not paid by 50% of the population, 2% of taxes are paid by the bottom 50% of earners which means <$48,700. In reality over 60% of all wealth in the world is owned by the top 1% of the population who refuse to pay their fair share. What your moms boyfriend is quoting is the federal income tax scheme and has nothing to do with who’s paying their fair share

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20w

okay, that’s what i was looking for. the “fair share” bit is what i was trying to get at. i knew there was misinformation in his statement. thank you :)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20w

i used to be more in-tune with these statistics but arguing with him so often truly burnt me out and i started ignoring it all. i need to get back into researching these things

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 20w

The bottom 50% have about 2% of the wealth so seems about right

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 20w

Regardless, they’re still making absurd amounts of money while tons of us are a paycheck or two away from missing out on necessities

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