Conservative States Raise Higher Share Of Taxes From The Poor

Conservative States Raise Higher Share Of Taxes From The Poor

Based on Katherine Newman's book, "Taxing the Poor," Ezra Klein comments on how Southern states raise taxes in the most regressive fashion: through sales taxes that fall most heavily on the poor. Klein refers to a chart in the book that shows how state and local taxes vary by region:

Rightardia has written about this innumerable times. The right wing tries to couch taxes in terms of income tax because it is one of the few progressive taxes.

All Americans pay taxes and more tax revenue comes from municipal, property and sales tax  than income tax.

The right wing also carps about the poor who don't pay income tax, but rarely mention that most of these people live in the low wage states in the South and the West. 


source: Conservative States Raise Higher Share Of Taxes From The Poor

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