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Josh Elliott
@joshforct.bsky.social
Jul 8, 01:13 PM
Let this sink in. The bottom third of our state pay more than twice as much of their income to state and local taxes as the wealthiest earners. Our tax system is in desperate need of reform. That's why I'm running.
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"top 4,500 income earners in our state pay less than 8% of their income to state and local taxes, while the bottom 1.2 million income earners in our state, that's a third of our state, pay over 20%, and that's part of the over-reliance in the property tax and the under-reliance on the progressive income tax."
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Josh Elliott
@joshforct.bsky.social
· Jul 6, 09:08 PM
Let this sink in. The bottom third of our state pay more than twice as much of their income to state and local taxes as the wealthiest earners. Our tax system is in desperate need of reform. That's why I'm running.