Postponed video for a postponed Tax Day
Apr. 15th, 2020 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If Tax Day hadn't been postponed, I'd have posted the following video at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.
There's a common myth about who pays their fair share, and who doesn't.
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You might have heard that the poor in America barely pay any taxes. And if you look at a chart of how much every American pays in income taxes, that seems basically true. But income taxes are just one type of the many taxes we pay. So what happens if we add them all up? A new analysis by the economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman did exactly that. And it shows that the American tax system might not be as "progressive" as many people believe.
Instead, I posted Tax Day postponed to July 15 because of pandemic today and am planning on sharing this video at Crazy Eddie's Motie News on July 15.