Uh, the thing about percentages, as in “the top 1%”, is that they are proportional. It doesn’t matter if one state has fewer billionaires than another state, that’s not what the chart is displaying.
If the average income tax of the top 1% isn’t 20 times higher than the average tax of any of the 20% groups, then they’ll be paying less overall tax. Because there’s 20 times more people in the bigger group.
Or it could be showing that those states have unfair tax rules, which is undoubtedly the case for some of them.
This chart is honestly completely meaningless, because there’s no way to know which of those two conditions exist.
It’s lies, damn lies, and statistics, poured into a rage-bait map.
Edit: However, I would be intrigued to know how the middle 20% managed to pay the least tax in Oregon.
So the red states actually have a less wealthy 1%, and therefore less inequality.
This is a wildly misleading chart at first glance.
Uh, the thing about percentages, as in “the top 1%”, is that they are proportional. It doesn’t matter if one state has fewer billionaires than another state, that’s not what the chart is displaying.
If the average income tax of the top 1% isn’t 20 times higher than the average tax of any of the 20% groups, then they’ll be paying less overall tax. Because there’s 20 times more people in the bigger group.
Or it could be showing that those states have unfair tax rules, which is undoubtedly the case for some of them.
This chart is honestly completely meaningless, because there’s no way to know which of those two conditions exist.
It’s lies, damn lies, and statistics, poured into a rage-bait map.
Edit: However, I would be intrigued to know how the middle 20% managed to pay the least tax in Oregon.
You could read the accompanying article.
Or even just the text on the chart.