• iAmTheTot
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    637 months ago

    This chart is not displaying income taxes. It is displaying the share of all taxes contributed by income brackets.

    • @evasive_chimpanzee
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      547 months ago

      For anyone not reading between the lines, taxes like sales taxes and property taxes are designed to disproportionately target those with lower income (i.e., regressive), while income tax is mostly supposed to target higher incomes (i.e. progressive).

      • @Thunderbird4
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        147 months ago

        And Washington actually has the most regressive tax structure in the US because of these factors.

      • HubertManne
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        37 months ago

        this is the problem with illinois which has a fixed flat income tax in its constitution.

    • @[email protected]
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      -117 months ago

      So the red states actually have a less wealthy 1%, and therefore less inequality.

      This is a wildly misleading chart at first glance.

      • iAmTheTot
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        107 months ago

        Uh, the thing about percentages, as in “the top 1%”, is that they are proportional. It doesn’t matter if one state has fewer billionaires than another state, that’s not what the chart is displaying.

        • @[email protected]
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          7 months ago

          If the average income tax of the top 1% isn’t 20 times higher than the average tax of any of the 20% groups, then they’ll be paying less overall tax. Because there’s 20 times more people in the bigger group.

          Or it could be showing that those states have unfair tax rules, which is undoubtedly the case for some of them.

          This chart is honestly completely meaningless, because there’s no way to know which of those two conditions exist.

          It’s lies, damn lies, and statistics, poured into a rage-bait map.

          Edit: However, I would be intrigued to know how the middle 20% managed to pay the least tax in Oregon.

          • iAmTheTot
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            77 months ago

            This chart is honestly completely meaningless, because there’s no way to know which of those two conditions exist.

            You could read the accompanying article.