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« Previous 1 2The bottom 50 of people by income pay 3 of the tax burden.
To explain the graph:
The income levels on the far left have arbitrary break points for general simplicity. AND, THEY DO NOT CORRESPOND to the percentiles on the right hand side of the tall graph, which have different, unstated, breakpoints..
The horizontal colored bands represent the portion of the tax returns in that income band.
The hashed areas represent the percent in the income band that do not pay any taxes. The circle with the # inside of it represents is the percent of the tax returns in that income band that do not pay any tax.
The percent on the right hand edge of the graph is the percentile range of the tax returns contributing the taxes in the indicated slice of the pie.
…and when an ambulance takes you to the hospital, that is kidnapping, right?
When the ambulance takes you (the uninsured) to the hospital it, for many, is the entry into indentured servitude.
The bottom 50 of people by income pay 3 of the tax burden.
I pay thousands of dollars each year in liquor taxes alone.
And you are still alive?
I can’t make heads nor tails of this….
I understand what the percents in the pie chart mean, but not the other two percents, and the fact that they cover different portions of the population make them meaningless when used together.
In the future label your number precisely, even if it means adding some more of those horrible words to your pretty pictures.
Worst info-graphic ever.
Maybe I’m just not that bright, but I can’t make sense of this chart. It’s too confusing. I gave up after a three attempts to figure it out. Surely Mint can come up with something a bit more intuitive.
mr commenter & xy7,
The bottom 50% of the taxpayers pay 3% of the taxes, the bottom 50% of people pay no taxes at all.
So… bottom 75% of people pay 3% in taxes – which is entirely paid for by the bottom 50% of taxpayers.
I agree with others, this graphic is hard to understand.
Very informative graphic which provides a wealth of information. Just needs to be studied, not glanced at.
If you don’t understand this graphic, I’ll make it simple for you: “You’re a damn freeloader.”
This is a very interesting picture.. makes you realize that it is somewhat unfair.
the majority of these comments reflect perfectly why we are becoming the scourge of the educated world
The higher income people pay all the income taxes and the lower income people, now close to 50%, not only pay no income taxes, but many get the earned income credit (that is actually a good program in my opinion) so they are paid free monet from those evil rich people.
The problem is, that percentage of non-payers is constantly increasing.
Imagine how much simpler this chart would look if we did not have a progressive income tax, but a system where everyone paid the same percentage.
Now imagine if that percentage were zero.
I enjoy the colors, it’s pretty.
Otherwise it’s pretty useless as graphs go. This must have been created by a politician, or a Federal employee.
No, I am not a freeloader, and, no, I do not understand this graph. One wedge of the “pie” in the pie-chart is labelled “2.9%.” We are talking about, I gather, 2.9% of federal revenues. The wedge is connected to a bracketed portion (I could almost say a bracked HALF) of the rectangle. This bracked portion is labelled with a percent RANGE: “50-100%.” Does it mean that from 50 to 100% of the small wedge of revenues comes from the bracketed area? It is unclear what the percent RANGE in the bracket means: Fifty to one-hundred percent OF WHAT?
How about a graph that shows how much each income group pays in taxes as a percentage of their income. That would be a nice accompaniment to this graph. Would really show who is getting “socked” with taxes.