{"id":3529,"date":"2012-02-03T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2012-02-03T12:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T17:40:31","slug":"state-taxes-are-wildly-regressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/state-taxes-are-wildly-regressive\/","title":{"rendered":"State Taxes Are Wildly Regressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some indigestible food for thought:\u00a0 there is not a single state in the Union\u2014not one\u2014in which the top 1% of income earners pay a higher rate of state taxes than the bottom 20%.\u00a0 For the majority of states, it&#8217;s not even close:\u00a0 the poorest 20% pay somewhere between double and six times the tax rate of the richest 1%.\u00a0 In Florida, those who make the least pay 13.5% of their income in state taxes, while those who make the most pay 2.1%.<\/p>\n<p>This comes to us from <em>Mother Jones&#8217;<\/em> Kevin Drum, who <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/02\/soaking-poor-state-state\">dug into<\/a> the comprehensive &#8220;Assets and Opportunity Scorecard&#8221; recently produced by the The Corporation for Enterprise Development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some indigestible food for thought:\u00a0 there is not a single state in the Union\u2014not one\u2014in which the top 1% of income earners pay a higher rate of state taxes than the bottom 20%.\u00a0 For the majority of states, it&#8217;s not even close:\u00a0 the poorest 20% pay somewhere between double and six times the tax rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,14],"tags":[196,197,193,198,142],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distribution","category-taxation","tag-196","tag-progressive-taxation","tag-state-taxes","tag-tax-fairness","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}