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Jack Reed: “The more you earn the more you pay, so, in effect, the marginal tax rate on our poorest households is higher than for…”

On the recordJuly 31, 2012
The more you earn the more you pay, so, in effect, the marginal tax rate on our poorest households is higher than for our highest-income households. That is ridiculous.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed criticizes the rent structure that penalizes low-income earners.

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