"The contrast between Harris and Trump on taxation could not be more clear," said the executive director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
You’re being a bit obtuse and misleading here, clearly you didn’t read the article.
For starters… its not an income level agnostic tax decrease. Its not a flat tax.
Its graduated. Progressive. And it decreases taxes for all but the wealthiest, whose taxes increase.
The group estimated that under Harris’ proposals, the poorest 20% of Americans would see an average tax cut of $1,130 in 2026 while the richest 1% would see an average increase of $121,460.
Sad as it is, our political system offers a binary choice.
Would you perhaps prefer the alternative?
EDIT:
If Harris wins, we can also reasonably expect a continuation of the Biden policy of doing that other thing you want, the IRS actually going after people in the ‘landlord’ brackets for tax evasion.
Has that been as extensive as you or I would prefer?
No.
But the alternative is Trump, who, along with Elon, might just abolish the IRS, or massively defund those efforts.
I think you accidentally a word or two there, but yes, I can only hope they have a plan for a week of nonstop adds with basically the second graph, and a concise explanation that these are nonpartisan, independent estimates/assessments.
Trump = Your taxes go up, unless you are Elon Musk. (Happy Elon Jumping Pic, followed by crying laid off Tesla worker lady)
Kamala = Your taxes go down, unless you are Elon Musk. (Sad, Crying Elon Pic, followed by one of his Starships fucking exploding, as all his sycophants cheer)
Granted, the MAGA cultists are quite adept at being impervious to basic facts… who knows if anything would actually work on them.
The images I used are, I think, shitty thumbnail versions of whats actually on the article as I only have a shit tier 4g phone.
If you go to the article’s page itself, you can make out the bracket definitions better.
That being said: (Threw this all in a spoiler so as to not further wall of text this thread)
These x axis are grouped into income tax brackets.
The US Federal income tax has long been broken up into a sort of stair step, series of brackets.
Declare x amount of yearly income, you fall into bracket 1, earn more next year? y amount of income? You may move up to bracket 2.
The brackets precise income level boundaries of the brackets, are updated each year based off of I think CPI (inflation) according to a known and established law and formulation.
This graph indicates the change in the amount of taxes you pay in percentage terms of your precise income.
I’ll attempt to explain in detail.
The way to read this… say you’re at the very first income bracket, 0 to $28k ish, and that for the sake of example, you make exactly 28k a year.
Right now, you pay… whatever % and amount of taxes as is currently the norm.
Under Kamala’s plan, you’ll pay 7% of your 28k, or $1960 less in taxes than in the current schema.
Under Trump’s plan, you’ll pay 4.9% of your 28k, or $1120 more in taxes.
If we go to the other side of the graph… lets say your income is exactly $1 million bucks.
You’re being a bit obtuse and misleading here, clearly you didn’t read the article.
For starters… its not an income level agnostic tax decrease. Its not a flat tax.
Its graduated. Progressive. And it decreases taxes for all but the wealthiest, whose taxes increase.
Sad as it is, our political system offers a binary choice.
Would you perhaps prefer the alternative?
EDIT:
If Harris wins, we can also reasonably expect a continuation of the Biden policy of doing that other thing you want, the IRS actually going after people in the ‘landlord’ brackets for tax evasion.
Has that been as extensive as you or I would prefer?
No.
But the alternative is Trump, who, along with Elon, might just abolish the IRS, or massively defund those efforts.
That comparison graph needs to be shown to all of those swing state voters. It makes it so obvious the poor right are voting against their interests.
It needs to be simplified. You’d be rather shocked at how many people can’t read the vast majority of standard graphs.
Fuck, you’re right.
I consistently forget that the average American has a 6th grade reading comprehension level.
And most wont even be honest in what group they realy are…
I think you accidentally a word or two there, but yes, I can only hope they have a plan for a week of nonstop adds with basically the second graph, and a concise explanation that these are nonpartisan, independent estimates/assessments.
Trump = Your taxes go up, unless you are Elon Musk. (Happy Elon Jumping Pic, followed by crying laid off Tesla worker lady)
Kamala = Your taxes go down, unless you are Elon Musk. (Sad, Crying Elon Pic, followed by one of his Starships fucking exploding, as all his sycophants cheer)
Granted, the MAGA cultists are quite adept at being impervious to basic facts… who knows if anything would actually work on them.
Is that the difference per bracket, or the net difference per income level? Because I think it’s the latter but I’m not sure
The images I used are, I think, shitty thumbnail versions of whats actually on the article as I only have a shit tier 4g phone.
If you go to the article’s page itself, you can make out the bracket definitions better.
That being said: (Threw this all in a spoiler so as to not further wall of text this thread)
These x axis are grouped into income tax brackets.
The US Federal income tax has long been broken up into a sort of stair step, series of brackets.
Declare x amount of yearly income, you fall into bracket 1, earn more next year? y amount of income? You may move up to bracket 2.
The brackets precise income level boundaries of the brackets, are updated each year based off of I think CPI (inflation) according to a known and established law and formulation.
This graph indicates the change in the amount of taxes you pay in percentage terms of your precise income.
I’ll attempt to explain in detail.
The way to read this… say you’re at the very first income bracket, 0 to $28k ish, and that for the sake of example, you make exactly 28k a year.
Right now, you pay… whatever % and amount of taxes as is currently the norm.
Under Kamala’s plan, you’ll pay 7% of your 28k, or $1960 less in taxes than in the current schema.
Under Trump’s plan, you’ll pay 4.9% of your 28k, or $1120 more in taxes.
If we go to the other side of the graph… lets say your income is exactly $1 million bucks.
Kamala plan: You pay $41k more in taxes.
Trump plan: You pay $14k less in taxes.