Washington Post: Opinion: Americans are liberals on taxes, living under a conservative system
media mentionWhen you combine all the kinds of taxes people pay, you see the system is almost flat. As this report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy shows, in 2018, Americans in the middle of the income distribution paid 25.4 percent of their income in taxes, while those in the top 1 percent paid 30.4 percent. Read more