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Re:The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U... by mooreds on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:55AM (#28906859)
How about "X% of people paid no tax" which is really the meaning of this.

Here's a page which talks about the effective tax rates of, as far as I can tell, all taxes people in the USA pay:

https://itep.org/who-pays-taxes-in-america-in-2020/

This is far more useful for the discussion about how we pay for common goods than "61% of Americans pay no federal income taxes".

(Never heard of ITEP before this, but they claim to be non-partisan, FWIW.)

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Re:The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U... by Qiu_Zhanxuan on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:59AM (#28906913)
Nice ressource, if every country had that we could have a common ground on which to discuss wealth and income inequality
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Re:The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U... by ClumsyPilot on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:59AM (#28906911)
We are missing the real juicy bit- top 0.1%
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