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

Posted on September 16, 2011September 16, 2011 by TRP

 

 

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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