Dossier: you pay, they play.(tax income statistics)
American Prospect, The, April, 2005
The top 1 percent of U.S. households received an average income-tax cut of approximately $40,990 in 2004, boosting their after-tax income by 5.3 percent ... The middle 20 percent of households received an average tax cut of $980, boosting their after-tax income by 2 percent ... Including corporate tax cuts, the top 1 percent of households in 2004 received one-third of all tax cuts enacted under George W.
Bush, garnering an average cut 70 times greater than that of the middle 20 percent of households ... One year earlier, the average tax cut for the middle 20 percent of tax filers ...
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