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In Most States, Undocumented Immigrants Pay Higher Tax Rates Than Top 1%. (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Note that this does not apply to federal taxes.

At the state and local levels, slightly less than half (46 percent, or $15.1 billion) of the tax payments made by undocumented immigrants are through sales and excise taxes levied on their purchases. Most other payments are made through property taxes, such as those levied on homeowners and renters (31 percent, or $10.4 billion), or through personal and business income taxes (21 percent, or $7.0 billion).

This isn't really showing much except that sales taxes are extremely regressive, which is already a well-known fact that people don't pay nearly enough attention to.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Sales taxes fucking suck. I grew up in a state where it was nearly 10% on everything, but I could hop in my car and drive 30 minutes across states lines to where it was just 6.1%. Still, when I had to shop local, it was terrible having an entire 1/10th added to the cost of whatever I was buying

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    You are completely correct; what it's doing is not presenting new ideas so much as pushing back against the narrative of the freeloading immigrant, which is only supported by cherry-picking what taxes "count" as taxes and ignoring the regressive taxes that you, appropriately, note that most people don't think of when they say "taxes".

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