• phx@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    As a proportion of their income maybe, but X% sale tax of one rich dude’s glamour item(s) - expensive cars, boats jewelry, fashion, etc) could exceed the taxes from many many lower-income essentials.

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      8 months ago

      Yes that’s right. This graph is shate and local tax as a proportion of income, which is a much more relevant statistic than absolute dollars when concerned with the impact on the individual’s quality of life. There might be other reasons to look at absolute dollars, and percentage of income doesn’t tell the whole story when it comes to quality of life, but one is certainly more descriptive than the other for that concern.