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Comment by bscphil

The real misleading part, to the point of being actively malicious, is "Each Taxpayer's Share: $951k".

This is intended to make the median viewer, who will never see that much money at once in their entire life (and will take 20+ years to even make that much before-tax), feel that the Federal government is being irresponsible. It's an obvious push for fiscal conservatism which, crucially may or may not be warranted by the actual facts.

To state the obvious, most people out there do not make enough money to plausibly pay one million dollars in taxes. Therefore they will not be paying one million dollars in taxes (you can't squeeze blood from a stone). The inevitable result is that either the U.S. government is doomed to go bankrupt (what they want you to think), or rich people will be contributing more than that to the United States' debt obligation (hint: they already are).

parent bscphil 5 years ago

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