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by mindslight 215 days ago
Your example is an income of $200k, not $60k. So no, that person is not being subsidized.

But yes, our tax system is horribly biased towards those who get to manage their income level or business deductions. W-2 worker bees can't even deduct the cost of the car they need to get to work.