“Americans don’t pay enough in taxes and need to pay more for the good of the country’s fiscal health, said Jared Bernstein, former chief economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, and a senior fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
Congressional Budget Office data show that U.S. households pay less taxes now than they did 30 years ago.
In 1979, the typical household paid 19 percent of their income in federal taxes, down from 11 percent today, Bernstein wrote in a Financial Times opinion piece.”
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