Slate: Republicans Are Finally Talking About Income Inequality

The problem is that this shifts the tax burden from the top to the bottom. In other words, it’s upward redistribution of wealth that harms the least well-off. And while the vast majority of states have tax systems that hit low-income Americans the hardest, these effects are worst in conservative states, where the highest tax burdens are on the poorest residents. Of the 10 states with the highest taxes on the poor, according to a recent study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, eight—Florida, Texas, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Arizona, Kansas, and Indiana—have had unified Republican control in the last six years.

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