January 16, 2015
A report by a non-partisan think tanks says that America’s poor are disproportionately burdened when it comes to paying taxes.
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, virtually every state tax system is unfair, grabbing a greater share of income from low- and middle-income families than from wealthy ones.
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