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In 41 US States, Richest 1% Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Everyone Else (www.commondreams.org)
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"Almost nobody says we should have the richest pay the least. And yet when we look around the country, the vast majority of states have tax systems that do just that."

Nearly every state and local tax system in the U.S. is fueling the nation's inequality crisis by forcing lower- and middle-class families to contribute a larger share of their incomes than their rich counterparts, according to a new study published Tuesday.

Titled Who Pays?, the analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) examines in detail the tax systems of all 50 U.S. states, including the rates paid by different income segments.

In 41 states, ITEP found, the richest 1% are taxed at a lower rate than any other income group. Forty-six states tax the top 1% at a lower rate than middle-income families.

Report: https://itep.org/whopays-7th-edition/

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

It's because the hyper-Christians in Government think the poor are poor because of their own failings. They are sinful and not favored by God. People who are rich got that way by being in God's favor, so why shouldn't we reward that?

It's called the Prosperity Gospel. It's uniquely American. And it's frightening.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/9/1/15951874/prosperity-gospel-explained-why-joel-osteen-believes-prayer-can-make-you-rich-trump

Throughout the twentieth century, proponents of this particularly American blend of theology envisaged God as a kind of banker, dispensing money to the deserving, with Jesus as a model business executive. Both of these characterizations were, at times, literal: In 1936, New Thought mystic and founder of the Unity Church Charles Fillmore rewrote Psalm 23 to read, “The Lord is my banker/my credit is good”; in 1925, advertising executive Bruce Bowler wrote The Man Nobody Knows to argue that Jesus was the first great capitalist. The literal money quote reads, “Some day ... someone will write a book about Jesus. Every businessman will read it and send it to his partners and his salesmen. For it will tell the story of the founder of modern business.”

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Prosperity gospel is like the most grotesque, final boss form, of The Just World Fallacy. The fact that it doesn't even have a quiet part, and just comes out swinging with full-throated equivocation of money and power to god's love, is disgusting and truly terrifying. It's like peering through a time vortex straight into the worst parts of dark age Europe. Thanks, I hate it.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 10 months ago

I'm not even Christian, but I'm pretty sure that's the exact opposite of what Christ was supposed to be teaching.

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