Huffington Post: GOP Governors’ Proposals Hit Poor Harder

Every state already relies on a regressive tax system, although some states depend on sales and excise taxes more than others, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a liberal think tank. A 2015 ITEP study found that the effective state and local tax rate burden was 10.9 percent of income for those in the bottom 20 percent of income, but just 5.4 percent for those in the top 1 percent.

Many proposals under debate in the states would continue the trend.

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