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Originally Posted by Googi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

90% of taxes in america are paid by the lowest income bracket because they cannot escape the taxes

this is how america has worked for 100 years, sorry if you are clueless and dirt poor

also trump paid plenty of state taxes

you trollin bro?

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-la...30.5%20percent).

The data demonstrates that the U.S. individual income tax continues to be very progressive, borne primarily by the highest income earners.[2]

In 2016, 140.9 million taxpayers reported earning $10.2 trillion in adjusted gross income and paid $1.4 trillion in individual income taxes.

- The share of reported income earned by the top 1 percent of taxpayers fell slightly to 19.7 percent in 2016. Their share of federal individual income taxes fell slightly, to 37.3 percent.

- In 2016, the top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of all individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 3 percent.

- The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent).