Washington Post: No Doubt About Who Wins Under GOP Tax Proposal

In another study, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy finds:

The middle 20 percent of income-earners in America, the group that is quite literally the “middle-class,” would receive 10 percent of the benefits in the U.S. in 2018 and just 8 percent of the benefits in 2027.  In other words, in 2027 the middle fifth of Americans would receive only one sixth of the benefits received by the richest one percent of Americans. …

The richest one percent of Americans would enjoy an average tax cut of $48,580 in 2018, and this average tax cut would rise to $64,720 in 2027. The middle fifth of income-earners would receive an average tax cut of $750 in 2018, which would fall to $460 in 2027. . . . [T]he richest one percent receive an average tax cut equal to about two and a half percent of their income in 2018 and 2027. The middle fifth of income-earners receive a break equal to 1.4 percent of their income in 2018, falling to just 0.6 percent of their income in 2027.

It does not have to come out this way, despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says. Read more

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