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more-flotsam-and-jetsam · 9 months ago
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northguwahati · 4 months ago
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4 Year Integrated BEd Program in Assam
4-Year Integrated BA BEd, BSc BEd, and BCom BEd Program in Assam. India’s education sector is evolving with the introduction of the 4-year Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP). This initiative, aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, aims to train competent teachers through an efficient and structured approach. If you want to become a teacher, this blog will help you…
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insightfultake · 5 months ago
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India’s New BEd & MEd Policy: A Game Changer for Future Teachers?
The National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) is set to bring a major shift in teacher education in India by reverting the Bachelor of Education (BEd) and Master of Education (MEd) programs to a one-year format starting from the 2026-27 academic session. This decision comes after a decade of implementing the two-year format, which was originally introduced to enhance the quality of teacher education. If the proposal is approved, it will offer aspiring educators greater flexibility and efficiency in completing their training while ensuring that educational standards are upheld.
This change is expected to have a significant impact on students who are looking to build a career in teaching. But how does this decision compare with the teacher education policies in other developed nations, and how will it benefit Indian students? Let’s take a closer look.
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shirleywhere · 2 years ago
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vague-humanoid · 11 months ago
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A recent study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) shows that workers laboring in the U.S. without lawful work authorization contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes to federal, state, and local economies. 
Tax experts, economists, and union organizers say it is unfair for undocumented workers to pay into the system in the billions without a legal status to be able to reap the benefits. They say workers do not get to legally participate in social safety net programs or see economic relief from government initiatives. 
Advocates say that could change if federal lawmakers commit to pathways toward extending work authorization to the 11 million people living in the U.S. without it due to their immigration status. A move toward a more broad and attainable work authorization status would boost federal and state tax bases and further fund government programs.
“Let’s just be clear: Contrary to stubborn myths and partisan-fueled tropes, undocumented immigrants pay taxes, lots of them,” said Jon Whiten, the deputy director of ITEP.
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political-us · 5 months ago
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Immigration vs Billionaires
The U.S. loses a significant amount in taxes due to undocumented immigrants, but it’s also important to note that undocumented immigrants still contribute to the economy in various ways, including through taxes.
1. Income Taxes: Many undocumented immigrants pay income taxes, often through false or borrowed Social Security numbers. According to estimates from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), undocumented immigrants contribute approximately $11.7 billion annually in state and federal income taxes.
2. Sales and Property Taxes: In addition to income taxes, undocumented immigrants contribute to state and local revenues through sales taxes when they purchase goods and services. They also pay property taxes indirectly through rent.
3. Overall Contribution: The total tax contribution from undocumented immigrants is estimated to be in the tens of billions, with studies showing that while there is a loss in terms of uncollected taxes from their wages (due to their undocumented status), they also contribute significantly to the U.S. economy in ways that offset these losses.
Overall, it’s difficult to quantify the exact "loss" in taxes due to undocumented immigrants, as the contributions through income, sales, and property taxes are considerable, even if they are not always fully captured.
The estimated cost of lost tax revenue due to undocumented immigrants is typically in the $12 to $13 billion range annually for federal income taxes, while their contributions through state and local taxes are significant, often approaching or exceeding $11 billion annually.
In 2021, Elon Musk ALONE paid approximately $11 billion in federal income taxes. This figure was reported by Forbes and other outlets. However, it's important to note that this is based on his 2021 income and does not include all of his wealth, as much of Musk’s wealth is tied to Tesla stock and other assets, which are not taxed until sold.
Despite his $11 billion tax payment, Musk’s effective tax rate as a percentage of his wealth was significantly lower. According to an investigation by ProPublica in 2021, Musk paid an effective federal income tax rate of around 3.27% on the $13.9 billion increase in his wealth from 2014 to 2018. This was much lower than the average rate for middle-income earners due to the fact that most of his wealth comes from unrealized capital gains, which are not taxed until the assets are sold.
Key Points:
The $13.9 billion refers to how much Musk’s wealth grew between 2014 and 2018 due to Tesla stock increasing in value. This increase is called unrealized capital gains (because he hasn’t sold the stock, so it’s not taxed yet).
Capital gains are the profits from selling things like stock. When Musk sells his stock, he pays taxes on the profit (capital gains).
Musk's effective tax rate was about 3.27% during that period because he paid taxes on income he actually earned (like when he sold stock), but didn’t pay taxes on the unrealized gains (the increase in the value of his unsold stock). This is why the percentage of tax he paid on his overall wealth is very low compared to regular workers who pay taxes on all their income.
In short, Musk’s $13.9 billion is how much his wealth grew from 2014 to 2018, and he paid very little tax on that growth because he hadn’t sold most of his stock during that time. He only paid taxes on what he sold in later years.
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cyntheshepicone · 1 year ago
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Ahhhh I missed the newer episodes but from seeing clips they did foop/itep so dirty that it's funny tbh cube head looking dork lmao. I feel like they nerfed him cause peris aura is already to powerful
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meret118 · 9 months ago
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As Republican nominee Donald Trump advances proposals that would further enrich the wealthiest Americans and profitable corporations, an analysis published Wednesday found that Vice President Kamala Harris' tax policy agenda would on average hike taxes on the nation's top 1% while cutting them for every other income group.
The new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) follows its in-depth examination of Trump's tax proposals, which the group found would cut taxes for the richest 5% of Americans and raise them for everyone else.
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rita-rae-siller · 3 months ago
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Into the Abyss
(Please, feel free to listen to the song before, after, or during reading) TW: Suicidal ideation, talks of suicide
Alura stared down at the ground far below the roof she stood on. The courtyard of the city’s keep was littered with dead from both sides. Many were White Cloak soldiers. Warriors that trusted her with their lives, worshipped the ground she walked on, gave their lives to defend and uphold her. What was the point of all this? How many more would she have to bury before the killing ended? Before her part was played, and her price paid? 
“It’s a long way down,” Eyre’s voice whispered in her ear. Her presence felt like a cold pressure on her back and a ghostly hand on her shoulder.
“Not long enough,” Alura replied. It was only six stories high. She’d be lucky if she died on impact. “Is it time, yet?”
“Not today. Do you truly wish for oblivion that badly, Golden One?” Out of the corner of her eye, Alura could see the goddess’ spectral form. She looked like the heavens on a new moon. A faceless, formless mass of pure darkness, whose shape changed randomly between animals and humans alike. 
“I want peace. I want an end to the madness. Is that so terrible?” Alura asked. 
“Which one? The ideal, or your means of achieving it?” Eyre asked in return.
“What difference does it make in the end?” Alura shrugged helplessly. She was being pulled in so many different directions, hanging on by a thread which was only moments from snapping. When would her own desires fit into the equation? What remained of her own life to claim for herself?
“Look at where Grandmother Shadow has led you; to ruin and misery, as she has with countless mortals before you.” Itep chimed in with his wicked laughter. His voice brought the smell of brimstone, death and rot with it. “You will go down a tyrant and a murderer no matter what you do. Why not simply end it here, on your own terms?”
“The Undying wants you to die for nothing. The root of his evil will continue to fester unchecked in Eredahl. Until Gora is freed, you will never be free, even in death,” Eyre said.
“His madness will bleed into you and like all the others that have come before, you will be consumed by him. Do you think your death will break the cycle? That some other warrior will not come along and take your place, as has happened for the last thousand years of imperial history? All this work will be for nothing. Their deaths will be for nothing. You will die for nothing.” Itep countered. “Gora does not care about you, and you cannot save him from himself. I have tried for millenia.”
“What happens next doesn’t concern me,” Alura said, unsure which god that was truly aimed at. Her race was run. Matilde had outplayed her at every turn. There would be no returning to Eredahl. The White Cloaks had lost over half of their numbers and were now powerless against Itep’s Red Legion. Morvaara refused to even acknowledge the work she had done for them. She was a dead woman walking no matter what she did.
“The world you leave behind for your little boy doesn’t concern you? What kind of mother are you to not want a better world for her child?” Eyre scorned.
“This isn’t about him,” Alura replied. Achaedon was safe now. She’d done her part.
“No, it has always been about you. Your pain. Your suffering. As though the entire world does not suffer under the crushing weight of your empire’s ceaseless hunger that you have fed violently for years. Just like every Shepherd before you, you are violence and murder incarnate.” There was a mocking sting to Itep’s words. “You are pathetic. Weak. A wicked little girl, full of greed and blind ambition. How many thousands have you killed to get to this moment? And only now does the sight of their blood horrify you? You are Gora’s through and through.”
Alura closed her eyes.  Not a single thing he said was a lie. In her youth, she was proud to serve, took awe in the privilege that was her life. The first woman in imperial history to take the title of Rahmut, to bear Gora’s holy tahlivora. For so long, she viewed battle as a game. Proving her might was a sacred sport. Why should she get to walk freely out of the hells just for tearing down what she helped to build? 
“Still thinking about jumping, hmm?” Eyre asked. “It is a shame, really. You showed such promise.” When Alura did not reply, she continued. “And my poor Mara. What will I tell her of your end? That you have been planning this blaze of suicidal glory from the very beginning? I don’t think she would be very happy.”
There was an ache so deep in Alura’s chest, it felt as though her very ribs were breaking. “One day she will understand.”
“She loves you.”
“I know.” Holding back the tears, Alura prepared to take the last step off the edge. 
“Look upon the setting sun,” Itep told her. “Why not see your lord’s brilliant glory one last time before you spit in his eye and spurn his gifts?”
Alura opened one eye as the sun broke through the burning haze of the city. It was nearly touching the horizon. Something stirred in her chest as she opened her other eye. Her tahli began to glow faintly, and a fire began to build in her belly, warm and comforting. The wood beneath her feet began to smoke and sizzle before bursting into white flames. 
“Gora has not given up, Child. Inside of you, he rages on,” Eyre’s voice whispered in her ear. “Embrace him, and free yourselves.”
“Just jump and end this foolishness. Gora is not worth saving. Why not save what is left of your soul?” Itep hissed. 
Alura was hesitant at first. The last two connections had gone wrong. Gora was wild, his fury untamed. It swallowed her whole in its endlessness. But now, in a city surrounded only by enemies, there seemed little to lose in the situation. What better place to let him take a swing at the forces of his oppressor? They could burn down Itep’s holy city together.
She spread her arms to embrace the setting sun as she teetered on the ledge. Somewhere in the distance, Red Legion war horns called for a retreat, and White Cloaks sounded the beginning of an offensive push. 
They will all burn,  Gora told her as she closed her eyes. The Undying forgets that We are the Sun, not just War. Let them taste of our divine fire. Remind the world that the Sun cannot be chained forever.
Every night we fall, and every day we rise anew, Alura replied.
And she jumped.
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justinspoliticalcorner · 6 months ago
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Qasim Rashid at Let's Address This:
Multiple sources are reporting that anti-immigrant raids will start in Chicago this Tuesday, the day after Inauguration.1 Trump is expected to deploy 200 ICE officers to target immigrant communities. Throughout his entry into right wing politics nearly a decade ago, Trump has painted immigrants as criminals and a threat to the country—a narrative that is not only false but deeply hypocritical. Corporate media has remained complicit, refusing to challenge him on his bigotry and hate. [...]
Part 1: Debunking ant-immigrant propaganda
Claim 1: Immigrants increase crime
Fact: False. Immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, have lower crime rates than native-born U.S. citizens. This has been consistently documented over not just decades, but over centuries. A Northwestern University study looked at data going back to 1870 and found:
[Using incarceration rates as a proxy for crime, a team of economists analyzed 150 years of U.S. Census data and found immigrants were consistently less likely to be incarcerated than people born in the U.S. They also found beginning in 1960, the incarceration gap widened such that immigrants today are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than the U.S.-born. “Our study shows that since 1870, it has never been the case that immigrants as a group have been more incarcerated than the U.S.-born,” Jácome said.]
In other words, the more immigrants you have in your neighborhood, the statistically safer is your neighborhood.
Claim 2: Undocumented immigrants are, by definition, criminals
Fact: False. The rhetoric that undocumented immigrants are "criminals" simply by virtue of being undocumented is misleading and disingenuous. Crossing the border without proper documentation is a civil violation, not a criminal one. It’s comparable to receiving a parking ticket or speeding ticket—a misdemeanor, not a felony. Moreover, the process to apply for asylum—which is a legal act protected by U.S. and international law—necessarily requires crossing the border without documentation and then applying. Asylum is legal immigration, and undocumented immigration is not a criminal act. And given that every MAGA accusation seems to be a confession, remember that Elon Musk was an undocumented immigrant himself. You can watch the short clip below from 2013, where Musk’s brother admits they were both “illegal immigrants.” [...]
Claim 4: Immigrants drain the economy
Fact: False. Countless studies quantify the immense economic benefit immigrants, and undocumented immigrants, contribute to the U.S. economy. Far from “taking Black jobs,” as Trump claims, immigrants ignite the economy and decrease overall unemployment. And while I can cite numerous studies, I’ll opt to cite one by the George W. Bush Institute, lest someone accuse me of cherry picking a left leaning organization. The Bush study concludes:
[Immigration fuels the economy. When immigrants enter the labor force, they increase the productive capacity of the economy and raise GDP. Their incomes rise, but so do those of natives. It’s a phenomenon dubbed the “immigration surplus,” and it amounts to $36 to $72 billion per year.]
But what about undocumented immigrants? The Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy (“ITEP”) reports a shocking fact that no fair minded person could argue is bad for the economy. ITEP concludes:
[Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments.]
For perspective, undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than the entire GDP of at least 10 U.S. states. These are taxes they pay towards our Medicare, Medicaid, and social service programs, for which they receive no benefit whatsoever. That’s also more in taxes annually than Musk or Trump will ever pay in a lifetime.
Claim 5: Immigrants are lazy & collect welfare.
Fact: False. Most immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, are ineligible for federal public benefits such as welfare, food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). According to U.S. law, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) must wait at least five years before they can access these benefits. Undocumented immigrants and certain temporary visa holders are entirely ineligible for most federal welfare programs.
Claim 6: Immigrants bring diseases into the U.S.
Fact: False. Immigrants have higher vaccination rates than U.S. citizens. So not only are they less likely to carry diseases, they are also more likely to help prevent the spread of illnesses. This myth is particularly dangerous because the Trump administration is using it to literally “find a disease” they can use as an excuse to invoke Title 42 and close the border to all new immigration.2 [...]
In Conclusion
Trump’s anti-immigrant raids will hurt the American people, the U.S. economy, and betrays our constitutional right to equal justice and due process. No one is claiming that the U.S. immigration system is perfect. However, the facts are clear—immigrants make our country safer, healthier, and stronger economically. Rather than falling for political propaganda that demonizes immigrants, we should focus on meaningful immigration reform that maximizes public safety, economic growth, and public health.
The reactionary anti-immigrant raids will begin tomorrow, the first full day of Fascist 47’s term.
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salkantaytrek-peru · 3 months ago
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Our Salkantay Trek with ITEP Expeditions Peru was more than we could ever have imagined and it surpassed all expectations
From the beginning with Flor in the office at ITEP in Cusco .Her communication was clear and she was very patient with us .Exceptional service muchos Gracias Flor.
I can't begin to describe the beauty of the Salkantay Track itself , it is a challenging yet immersive experience especially for our group of 4 age range between 59 to 71 years !! We were outliers in age on the track and a
would advise that you should not take this Trek on with no multi day hiking experience especially if you are a bit older.
We were led by our guide Santiago. This beautiful man was present with us every step of the 70 kilometres , both physically and emotionally through the rain, mud , steep ascents and descents to and from altitude,
and the heat and cold of this incredible journey through this amazing part of Peru
He understood the needs of everyone of the 4 of us in his group and was able to engage us all at our own level , encouraging, educating and advising in a humble and quiet way . His love of what he does, his country and his heritage was a humbling experience to be in his presence for these 5 days
Santiago mi Amigo we can never express enough our thanks to you... you are what made our experience so humbling and non forgettable !!!
We also had the privilege of travelling in the company of Julio our chef and Jenaro our Horseman These 2 beautiful men also made our trek memorable not only for their skill at providing amazing meals but transporting everything for us so we could be immersed in the splendour of this experience . It was humbling to share this time with these 2 amazing patient and humble men of the mountains , muchos Gracias amigos!!
We can't recommend this hike through ITEP enough especially if you are a bit older
The groups are smaller than the bigger groups full of younger hikers and the care and attention given to us can't be faulted
Thankyou so much to everyone
Tour: 5 days Salkantay Trek to Machu Picchu + Huaynapicchu
Passenger: Michael John Murray, Clare Margaret Lumley, Janis Norma Murray
Guide: Santiago
Departure: April 14th, 2025
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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year ago
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Today, President Joe Biden signed the continuing resolution that will give lawmakers another week to finalize appropriations bills. Lawmakers will continue to hash out the legislation that will fund the government. 
Republicans have been stalling the appropriations bills for months. In addition to inserting their own extremist cultural demands in the measures, they have demanded budget cuts to address the fact that the government spends far more money than it brings in. 
As soon as Mike Johnson (R-LA) became House speaker, he called for a “debt commission” to address the growing budget deficit. This struck fear into the hearts of those eager to protect Social Security and Medicare, because when Johnson chaired the far-right Republican Study Committee in 2020, it called for cutting those popular programs by raising the age of eligibility, lowering cost-of-living adjustments, and reducing benefits for retirees whose annual income is higher than $85,000. Lawmakers don’t want to take on such unpopular proposals, so setting up a commission might be a workaround.
Last month, the House Budget Committee advanced legislation that would create such a commission. The chair of the House Budget Committee, Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX), told reporters that Speaker Johnson was “100% committed to this commission” and wanted to attach it to the final appropriations legislation for fiscal year 2024, the laws currently being hammered out.
Congress has not yet agreed to this proposed commission, and a recent Data for Progress poll showed that 70% of voters reject the idea of it. 
This week, a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonprofit think tank that focuses on tax policy, suggested that the cost of tax cuts should be factored into any discussions about the budget deficit. 
In 2017 the Trump tax cuts slashed the top corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and reined in taxation for foreign profits. The ITEP report looked at the first five years the law was in effect. It concluded that in that time, most profitable corporations paid “considerably less” than 21% because of loopholes and special breaks the law either left in place or introduced. 
From 2018 through 2022, 342 companies in the study paid an average effective income tax rate of just 14.1%. Nearly a quarter of those companies—87 of them—paid effective tax rates of under 10%. Fifty-five of them (16% of the 342 companies), including T-Mobile, DISH Network, Netflix, General Motors, AT&T, Bank of America, Citigroup, FedEx, Molson Coors, and Nike, paid effective tax rates of less than 5%.
Twenty-three corporations, all of them profitable, paid no federal tax over the five year period. One hundred and nine corporations paid no federal tax in at least one of the five years. 
The Guardian’s Adam Lowenstein noted yesterday that several corporations that paid the lowest taxes are steered by chief executive officers who are leading advocates of “stakeholder capitalism.” This concept revises the idea that corporations should focus on the best interests of their shareholders to argue that corporations must also take care of the workers, suppliers, consumers, and communities affected by the corporation. 
The idea that corporate leaders should take responsibility for the community rather than paying taxes to the government so the community can take care of itself is eerily reminiscent of the argument of late-nineteenth-century industrialists. 
When Republicans invented national taxation to meet the extraordinary needs of the Civil War, they immediately instituted a progressive federal income tax because, as Representative Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT) said, “The weight [of taxation] must be distributed equally, not upon each man an equal amount, but a tax proportionate to his ability to pay.” 
But the wartime income tax expired in 1872, and the rise of industry made a few men spectacularly wealthy. Quickly, those men came to believe they, rather than the government, should direct the country’s development. 
In June 1889, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie published what became known as the “Gospel of Wealth” in the popular magazine North American Review. Carnegie explained that “great inequality…[and]...the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few” were “not only beneficial, but essential to…future progress.” And, Carnegie asked, “What is the proper mode of administering wealth after the laws upon which civilization is founded have thrown it into the hands of the few?”
Rather than paying higher wages or contributing to a social safety net—which would “encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy,” Carnegie wrote—the man of fortune should “consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer…in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.”  
“[T]his wealth, passing through the hands of the few, can be made a much more potent force for the elevation of our race than if distributed in small sums to the people themselves,” Carnegie wrote. “Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among themselves in trifling amounts through the course of many years.”
Here in the present, Republicans want to extend the Trump tax cuts after their scheduled end in 2025, a plan that would cost $4 trillion over a decade even without the deeper cuts to the corporate tax rate Trump has called for if he is reelected. Biden has called for preserving the 2017 tax cuts only for those who make less than $400,000 a year and permitting the rest to expire. He has also called for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, which would generate more than $2 trillion. 
Losing the revenue part of the budget equation and focusing only on spending cuts seems to reflect a society like the one the late-nineteenth-century industrialists embraced, in which a few wealthy leaders get to decide how to direct the nation’s wealth.   
[LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN: MARCH 1, 2024]
Heather Cox Richardson
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“The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness, and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.” —Margaret Halsey, novelist (13 Feb 1910-1997)
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historicalhyperfications · 2 years ago
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To my fellow USAmericans! A very important study coming from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) has been published and it's not seeing much light in major news channels. Spread this like wildfire!
It's also available as a PDF so screenshot away but make sure you keep that citation! This is an institution with pretty strong rapport.
TLDR 41 of 50 states have been shown to be taxing it's wealthiest residents at rates higher than that of its poorest.
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shirleywhere · 2 years ago
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msclaritea · 2 years ago
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Forty-four of 50 US states worsen inequality with ‘upside-down’ taxes | US income inequality | The Guardian
Forty-four of 50 US states worsen inequality with ‘upside-down’ taxes
New research found that poorest fifth pay a tax rate 60% higher, on average, than the top 1% of households
"A total of 44 of the 50 US states worsen inequality by making the wealthy pay a lesser share of their income in taxes than lower income people, a new analysis has found.
State and local tax regimes are “upside-down”, the new research finds, with weak or non-existent personal income taxes in many states allowing richer Americans to avoid tax. A reliance on sales and excise taxes, considered regressive because they disproportionately impact the poor, has helped fuel this inequality, according to the report.
CEOs of top 100 ‘low-wage’ US firms earn $601 for every $1 by worker, report finds
“When you ask people what they think a fair tax code looks like, almost nobody says we should have the richest pay the least,” said Carl Davis, research director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), which conducted the analysis.
“And yet when we look around the country, the vast majority of states have tax systems that do just that. There’s an alarming gap here between what the public wants and what state lawmakers have delivered.”
Only six states, plus the District of Columbia, have tax systems that reduce inequality rather than worsen it, with the poorest fifth of people paying a tax rate 60% higher, on average, than the top 1% of households.
The super-wealthy are treated particularly lightly by the tax system, with the top 1% paying less than every other income group across 42 states. In most states, 36 in all, the poorest residents are taxed at a higher rate than any other group.
The most regressive states in terms of taxation are, in order, Florida, Washington, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Nevada. The least regressive jurisdictions are DC, Minnesota, Vermont, New York and California.
Various state-level policies, such as cutting taxes on the wealthy to supposedly drive economic activity, has worsened this situation, the report found. Inequality in recent decades has been far starker in the US than in other comparable countries and while some pandemic-era interventions, such as a child tax credit, lessened the burden on the poorest in society, many of those measures have now lapsed.
“But we know it doesn’t have to be like this,” said Aidan Davis, ITEP’s state policy director.
“There is a clear path forward for flipping upside-down tax systems and we’ve seen a handful of states come pretty close to pulling it off. The regressive state tax laws we see today are a policy choice, and it’s clear there are better choices available to lawmakers.”
• This article was amended on 11 January 2024. Owing to incorrect information supplied to us, an earlier version listed New Jersey as the fifth least regressive tax jurisdiction, according to the ITEP report, rather than California."
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