[chriscrisby]

50% of Americans think taxes are too high, the other 50% think taxes need to be higher so they’ll get a larger refund.

It’s not a sustainable system. A better solution would be to change tax law so a “payer” can’t receive a larger refund than what they paid. No more credits, only deductions.

[kennywinker]

The majority of americans think their taxes need to be lower, and the taxes for the rich need to be higher.

[chriscrisby]

Majority of Americans pay little to no taxes.

[kennywinker]

By percentage of income, or by dollar value? By dollar value, that seems possible. By % of income? Does not seem possible.

[chriscrisby]

Top 50% of taxpayers paid about 97% of all federal individual income taxes. Therefore bottom 50% pay nothing or next to nothing.

[kennywinker]

So you’re counting by dollar amount.

Because find me a person who thinks 25% of their income is “next to nothing”

Meanwhile, a tax avoiding billionaire will double their net worth and take out an asset-backed loan of 100mil to live off and then pay ~0% of that in taxes.