What to make of this? Tax burdens

[Max Sawicky]

Tax share is not the same as tax burden.
Burden to honest people means tax liability
divided by income.  To assorted fakers like
the Tax Foundation it is tax liability divided
by total tax revenue.

It is true that the individual income tax is
increasingly concentrated -- in terms of
tax *share* -- on higher income groups.
At the same time, their share of income
is going up too.

I haven't bothered checking all the figures.
You can get honest numbers from CTJ, the
Joint Committee on Taxation of the Congress,
or under Democratic presidents, from the
Treasury Dept.

mbs

 

 
> What do we make of this as compared to the Citizens
> for Tax Justice findings?  Who is right?  
> 
> Tax Burden Falls on the Wealthy 
> Tue Apr 9, 2:08 AM ET 
> By CURT ANDERSON, AP Tax Writer