Perry Brags About Texas’ Tax System That Charges The Poor Four Times As Much As The Rich

As Matt Yglesias has noted, in reality Perry’s tax system “has done a great job of soaking the poor.” In fact, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, someone in the poorest 20 percent of Texans can expect to face a tax rate four times as high as a Texan in the richest 1 percent:

via Perry Brags About Texas’ Tax System That Charges The Poor Four Times As Much As The Rich | ThinkProgress.

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