GOP Tax Bill Hands Biggest Benefits to Top Earners, Study Says
Source: MSN/Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- The final Republican tax bill would lower taxes on average across the income spectrum for the first eight years, with the largest benefits going to upper earners, according to a new analysis Monday by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Next year, the average federal tax cut would be $1,610, the study found. The bottom fifth of income-earners would get an average cut of $60 and those in the middle fifth would get a $930 cut on average, according to the analysis. The top 1 percent would get $51,140 on average, and the top 0.1 percent would get $193,380, it found.
President Donald Trump has said the tax plans biggest beneficiaries will be middle-income families, and the wealthiest Americans wont gain from it.
In 2025, the average tax cut would fall to $1,570 on average. Those in the bottom fifth would get a cut of $70 and those in the middle fifth would get a cut of $910, according to the study. The top 1 percent would get $61,090 apiece and the top 0.1 percent would get $252,300, it found.
By 2027, individual breaks that are set to expire would lead to a tax increase for the bottom 60 percent of earners relative to existing law, while those on the higher end -- especially the top 1 percent -- would continue to see lower taxes, according to the analysis.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-tax-bill-hands-biggest-benefits-to-top-earners-study-says/ar-BBH09bY
Note how Republicans only made tax cuts for the rich permanent.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)Remember how the U.S. was heading to the left in a forward direction?
I guess the 1% didn't like that; and instead of spending their own money to change things in their favor, they called out to Putin.
It's called a class war, and we're losing.
And don't kid yourselves (those of you who are slightly rich), you're going to suffer, as well.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Augiedog
(2,548 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)FTS!
wiggs
(7,819 posts)looted his own country for 10s/100s of billions....Trump probably feels he is owed something similar.