How will the new tax reform affect the poor and middle class?

[Barack_Obama]

@HurricaneDitka

Yeah, there are, and thelurkinghorror is correct. Take a look at the chart here for the short answer.

This is because the tax system is rigged in favor of the wealthy. The poor are too incompetent to file their own taxes, and too poor to pay someone else to do them for them.

@thelurkinghorror

Err… “the poor” take deductions, they just take the standard deduction. Unless your itemized deductions are more than 6300/12600, or more potentially under the new plan, you might as well take the standard.

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