this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2024
636 points (94.9% liked)

United States | News & Politics

1932 readers
573 users here now

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

What a terrible graph. You don't know if the numbers are good or bad at a passing glance.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] Aermis@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

I might break 140k this year living near Seattle for a single income household with 3 children under 6. Is this graph saying that Trump's tax plan will benifit me, a middle class, some would argue lower middle class in this location, better than Harris?

[–] Corndog@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't looked into the specifics of these policies, so I could be wrong, but I'd say no.

This graph doesn't really take into account everything it should IMO. The massive tax cuts to the wealthy are going to dramatically screw over people with lower incomes, because there'll be less money overall. I believe Trump's case would involve making up that deficit with really high tariffs on things, especially Chinese goods. This means that, although your taxes would be slightly lower on paper, you're spending a lot more money for literally everything that's made in China (or contains parts or materials from China). Typically tax cuts for the wealthy also involve money leaving crucial areas for lower income areas, like schools and infrastructure. The Harris plan (I believe) is revenue neutral, meaning for you it's literally free money with no downsides. In her case the extra money comes from slightly increasing the tax rates of the wealthy (as you can see here).

It's also worth noting that your income is taxes in the brackets it falls in. The first $39,000 is taxed at that (lower) rate, then the next bit is taxed in the next bracket, etc. Breaking the $140,000 mark doesnt mean all your income is now taxed at a higher rate. I THINK this is taken into account in this graph, but I haven't looked into it to be sure. I wanted to mention it though because it's a constant point of confusion for people.

Hope this helps.

load more comments (9 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›