On: Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Taxes in 2016

[anonymous5133]

The "feeling of a $1" is more of an opinion type statement whereas the other comparisons are more fact based.

[andybak → anonymous5133]

Let me put it another way.

$1 feels like the difference between eating and not eating to some people whereas other people wouldn't stoop to pick a dollar up from the sidewalk if they dropped it.

How "fact-based" do you need this to be?

[ars → andybak]

But the question at hand is not income, it's tax reduction.

When you get comparisons in the news about this tax plan or the other, they don't adjust the numbers based on how "$1 feels".

They just use a percent of income - but since low income people pay so little tax in the first place, even a percent reduction looks meager.