It isn't tax cuts that are driving federal deficits - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : For the richest of the rich, the disparity between share of income earned and share of taxes paid is even more striking.
49% : And despite the endless clamor about how the rich don't shoulder an equitable share of the tax burden, the overwhelming majority of the tax revenues gushing into the Treasury are paid by the well-to-do.
46% : "The share of taxes paid by higher-income households exceeded their share of income; the opposite is true for lower-income households," noted the CBO in August.
46% : In 2018, households in the highest quintile received 55 percent of income before transfers and taxes and paid 70 percent of federal taxes."
44% : "You conveniently fail to mention the cuts in taxation."
42% : In fact, as the Tax Foundation points out, corporations paid $73 billion more in taxes last year than they paid the year before Congress cut their taxes.
36% : "You blame the government debt entirely on government spending," wrote one correspondent.
36% : Congressional Democrats are pushing hard to hike taxes on corporations and high-earning households.

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