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When you account for all taxes this may be true but for just income taxes it isn’t. According to the link below the bottom 50% makeup just 2.34% of income taxes paid. So, eliminating income taxes and maybe adding a return free filing option for the bottom 50% of households looks super doable.

Source: https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/who-pays-income-taxe...



Income taxes don't affect every person equally though. Plenty of Very Rich people earn zero income.


Yep and that is a separate issue that needs to be addressed. When you have people who are so wealthy that they can switch their nationality on a whim then that requires special solutions.




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