• @thesohoriots
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    8810 hours ago

    Nobody in the US knows how marginal rates and progressive tax brackets work, you can sell the fools on anything and just blame the IRS because it’s the most convenient incarnation of what people hate.

    • @Mortoc
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      107 hours ago

      I mean even this post got it wrong, your taxes go up until about $1 mil, not $300k.

      • @Draces
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        35 hours ago

        But the cuts could start benefiting you at the $300k bracket relative to before. What’s the actual change?

        • @faltryka
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          155 hours ago

          Because the way marginal taxation works if you make 300k you paid all those extra brackets tax hikes before you got to 300k and started seeing the lower marginal rate.

          So to see your impact you add every changed number from the left up to your income, that’s your impact.

          Yes it takes a positive turn at 300k, but you’re already deep in the whole and don’t turn to actually positive until around the final bracket.

          • @Draces
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            13 hours ago

            I know how marginal taxes work and you didn’t address my question. If the tax on above $300k is less than it was before you are paying less. What is this about something changing at $1 million?

            • @Nednarb44
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              52 hours ago

              I think what they’re saying (I didn’t look at the data yet) is that while the rate at 300k is lower, that lower rate doesn’t make up for the higher rates that individual will have paid until that point. So for the individual in question, the net positive doesn’t happen until 1m.

              • @Draces
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                144 minutes ago

                Ah yeah. Might just be a bad graph since it says “by income group” and then breaks down by the actual bracket. Not sure exactly which it means still but I think they’re right