The Washington Post: Varied and Sometimes Unfair State Taxes

States favor their highest earners when it comes to taxation, according to a January report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

As we reported then, the bottom fifth of earners give up nearly twice as large a share of their incomes in state and local taxes as the top 1 percent. And that skewed reliance on the poor means states are benefiting less as income inequality continues to grow.

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