[oc] Average total (effective) federal tax rate by household income quintile

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1. I thought this was an interesting chunk of data about effective tax rates by household income quintile. Effective tax rate being the total federal taxes paid by a household divided by household income.

   Graph generated by chatGPT because I’m garbage.

   Source: https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-average-federal-tax-rates-all-households

2. This hurts me right in the quintile  

3. There’s nothing to indicate which country this is, there’s tons of federations this could be

4. To be a little more informative, I think it would be good to add the household quintile ranges from 2019. https://taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/household-income-quintiles

5. Now bring it back to the 1950s, when middle class was at its peak

6. ahhh….Bookings. **US** Federal data. Missing the country.

7. Perfect chart to show to people who think they got a tax cut under trump 🤣😂

8. This reinforces my assumption that everyone who thinks “rich people don’t pay their fair share” in taxes has no idea what they’re talking about.

9. Why are you excluding social security and medicare taxes?

10. Why did you put the lowest quintile on top in the legend?

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