claim: for people in the top 1 percent for income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it’s been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make substantially less money."
author: timothy geithner
evidence_1: oct 11, 2017 ... the years from the end of world war ii into the 1970s were ones of substantial  economic growth and broadly shared prosperity. beginning ... other research  suggests that most of that is held by an even smaller percentage at the very top,  whose share has been rising over the last three decades. data from a ...
evidence_2: low, but not that low. timothy geithner · for people in the top 1 percent for  income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it's been in  decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make  substantially less money." — politifact national on tuesday, july 12th, 2011.  true. he's right.
evidence_3: nov 24, 2015 ... furthermore, as you can see, the chart looks pretty much the same when looking  at personal income tax receipts and the top marginal tax rate. ..... bretton woods  and the post wwii aid programs helped goose global demand, of which -- in the  immediate postwar decade -- we were the primary beneficiary.
evidence_4: the working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty  line due to lack of work hours and/or low wages. largely because they are  earning such low wages, the working poor face numerous obstacles that make it  difficult for many of them to find and keep a job, save up money, and maintain a  sense ...
evidence_5: they, i submit, may turn out to be the most significant events of this, our century,  and its lasting legacy. in the developed free-market countries--which contain less  than a fifth of the earth's population but are a model for the rest--work and work  force, society and polity, are all, in the last decade of this century, qualitatively  and ...