Tax cut distribution

The Congressional Budget Office released a new study today detailing the impact of recent tax cuts on various income levels. Bottom line - the very, very wealthy made out very, very well.

From the New York Times:

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Report Finds Tax Cuts Heavily Favor the Wealthy

Fully one-third of President Bush's tax cuts in the last three years have gone to people with the top 1 percent of income, who have earned an average of $1.2 million annually, according to a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to be published Friday.

The report calculated that households with incomes in that top 1 percent were receiving an average tax cut of $78,460 this year, while households in the middle 20 percent of earnings - averaging about $57,000 a year - were getting an average cut of only $1,090. The new estimates confirm what independent tax analysts have long said: that Mr. Bush's tax cuts have been heavily skewed to the very wealthiest taxpayers. Those are also the people, however, who pay a disproportionate share of federal income taxes.
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