The following article from Paul Buchheit was posted on the Alternet website March 20, 2017:
When all forms of taxes and income are considered, poor Americans pay higher tax rates than the richest 1%.
The analysis starts with state and local taxes, which are often ignored by apologists for big-income tax cuts. According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the state and local tax rate for the poorest 20 percent of individuals is double that of the top 1 percent (10.9 percent vs. 5.4 percent). New data from Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman allows us to go further: When unrealized capital gains are included in the wealth-building of the richest 1%, the overall tax rates plunge for the super-rich, causing the poorest Americans to pay the highest rates. Continue reading “The Rich Pay Fewer Taxes Than The Poor, And Get More Services”