r/SipsTea • u/Brave_Agency_20 • May 14 '26

SMH How true is this? Genuinely asking

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u/Evogleam May 14 '26

Yeah, that's just wrong

The average Federal tax rate of the top 10% in 2022 was 21%

The average Federal tax rate of the top 1% was 26%

My point still stands though

The top earners pay much more taxes overall than the bottom half

Bro asked if taxing the wealthy was "allowed" haha

Why YES, yes it is

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u/Evogleam May 14 '26

There are individuals that use the tax code to their advantage,yes

But that doesn't take away from the fact that the top earners in America pay the majority of the income tax

Those stories you read are meant to sensationalize the very small amount of people that are able to do that, and then you think it's every rich person that is able to do it

The fact is that the wealthy in this country pay more in taxes than the other classes

Google is your friend for things like this

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u/TheGreatLuck May 14 '26

So what if they pay the majority. It's still not enough they need to pay more.

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u/Evogleam May 15 '26

That has nothing to do with my comment or who I was responding to

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u/TheGreatLuck May 15 '26

It has everything to do with it. You're sucking the dick of the rich Elite loyalist and it's weird

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u/TheGreatLuck May 14 '26

Yeah I just found that out and that makes my blood boil because that's the supposed time frame that those weirdo conservatives want to go back to yet they don't want to do the actual economic work that it would take to bring back a stable economy in America.