Because almost everyone who purchases anything pays 'sales tax' and almost all h...

skinnymuch · on Oct 18, 2021

If that’s the problem that is cared about. Are you saying going after the lower socioeconomic class of America is how to get back those evaded taxes?

The narrative in general for the statistic is about lower socioeconomic people. If this was a good faith caring about tax evasion. Why would the focus be on the people with the least income and wealth?

I don’t think it would be if that was really the problem being cared about.

And yes the sales tax is part of the point. To give nuance to such a simple statistic.

AniseAbyss · on Oct 18, 2021

We are going back to a time where the church and nobility are exempt from taxation and the monarch in desperation keeps squeezing the peasants.

RC_ITR · on Oct 18, 2021

Yeah, Brookings or whatever cesspool that made this left out those taxes as part of their narrative.

I included them to counter that narrative and the you RAN with my intent.

EDIT: To that point, you can absorb statistics from an organization but still disagree with their editorializing.