Boston Globe: Who Pays More in Taxes?
media mentionBy Evan Horowitz, April 22, 2014
How is paying taxes like watching a movie? They’re both activities that you do alone — with other people. In a movie theater, you watch the same flickering images as everyone else, but you experience them very much by yourself, without talking, texting, or sharing. And when you pay taxes, you’re making the same calculations and filling out the same forms as tens of millions of other people, but you don’t work with them. You have your numbers, and I have mine.
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When it comes to state and local taxes, you find precisely the opposite: higher-income families pay a smaller share of their income in taxes while lower-income families pay more. It is called a regressive tax system, and you’ll find it in virtually every state, including Massachusetts. (Source Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy)
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