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[–] techwithjake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Got it backwards. There's 3X citizens than tax payers. Since there is less tax payers, they have to pay more.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

Yeah, i think more specifically theyre going by people paying income taxes... it may include other categories, i think they have a giant companion methodology explainer somewhere.

I only clipped like 10% of the whole page, basically roughly what it initially was when this page was started... 20+ years ago, I don't know exactly.

Its since gotten ... a lot more stats added on to it.

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[–] techwithjake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I'm sure there's a more precise methodology to it. I'm just thinking a household of 4, 2 parents 2 children, that's only 2 tax payers since kids don't pay taxes.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago*

You also gotta count all the retired / disabled / under the table employed.

Add them in and its more like 1:2 instead of 1:1.

Oh and also students that are full time students with no regular job at the same time.