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Re:A Year After the Middle Class Tax Cut, the Rich Are Winning by cpncrunch on Saturday December 22, 2018 @07:05PM (#18743331)
The article is comparing the % that each group benefits by, not the actual dollar amounts. Did you read the article?
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Re:A Year After the Middle Class Tax Cut, the Rich Are Winning by paulpauper on Saturday December 22, 2018 @07:21PM (#18743435)
that makes sense because the top brackets pay the highest percentage to begin with, of around 39% . it does not make much sense to give the lowest % brackets the same % as highest bracket, and the lowest bracket has a negative effective rate anyway.
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