• @[email protected]
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    553 months ago

    For anyone not reading between the lines, taxes like sales taxes and property taxes are designed to disproportionately target those with lower income (i.e., regressive), while income tax is mostly supposed to target higher incomes (i.e. progressive).

    • @[email protected]
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      143 months ago

      And Washington actually has the most regressive tax structure in the US because of these factors.

    • HubertManne
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      33 months ago

      this is the problem with illinois which has a fixed flat income tax in its constitution.