Hartford Courant: Teachers Call For Taxing Wealthy, Not Cutting Programs

“Basing its comments on what it said are figures from the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the union said that Connecticut households with incomes in the top 1 percent pay 5.3 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes, while the remaining 99 percent of Connecticut residents pay an average of 9.9 percent of their incomes. Meg Wiehe, state policy director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said Connecticut’s 99 percent actually paid 9.3 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes in 2015, confirming that the 1 percent paid 5.3 percent.”

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