In 2018, if you look at the share of who paid Federal income taxes for starters, the top 1 percent of income earners earned about 21 percent of all the income--21 percent. They paid 40 percent of all the taxes.
Toomey argues that the wealthy contribute significantly to federal taxes.
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Paychecks are not keeping up with rising prices. After adjusting for inflation, wages have declined 5 percent since President Biden took office.
I have no doubt that a few years after these projects are completed, transit agencies will come back to Congress pleading for still more subsidies to operate systems that have become far too large for the demand.
I just think that fare evasion is an important violation of the law that the FTA should be tracking.
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