"Interesting numbers from Phil Gramm and Robert B. Ekelund Jr.:
The bottom quintile earned 2.2% of all earned income in 2013, but after adjusting for taxes and transfer payments, its share of spendable income rose to 12.9%—six times its proportion of earnings. The second quintile’s share more than doubled, rising from 7% of earned income to 13.9% of spendable income. For the third quintile, middle-income Americans, the increase was much smaller, from 12.6% to 15.4%.To put it another way, the effective marginal tax rate when a person moves from the bottom to the middle quintile is 1 - (15.4-12.9)/(12.6-2.2), or 76 percent."
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
The effective marginal tax rate when a person moves from the bottom to the middle quintile is 76 percent
See An Effective Marginal Tax Rate by Greg Mankiw.
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