Federal and State Retirement Systems

The bottom 20% of earners pay about 11% of their income in state and local taxes, while the top 1% pay about 5.4% of their income in these taxes (Davis et al. 2009, 2015). By contrast, the federal income tax is highly progressive, in spite of the many loopholes. ................
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