claim: wealthy taxpayers, not middle-income earners, get "most of the deductions" in the tax code.
author: paul ryan
evidence_1: oct 8, 2017 ... trump's tax plan is "completely focused on the wealthy and the ... focused on the  wealthy and the powerful - not the middle class," schumer said ... does the trump  plan focus only on the nation's wealthiest taxpayers? ... two major deductions  benefit low-income filers the most: the ... who gets the best deal?
evidence_2: dec 2, 2017 ... president trump signed a long-awaited tax bill into law on ... 85.4 percent of  people like you would get a tax cut, and 5.1 percent would see a tax increase. ...  this causes many low- and middle-income taxpayers to see a tax ... the cuts for  corporations will not expire, and wealthy individual taxpayers will still ...
evidence_3: dec 20, 2017 ... no one in the middle class is going to turn up their nose at an extra thousand  bucks. ... pointing out that the tax bill could have done much more for middle  earners. ... what the gop says: taxes are getting simpler. ... taxpayers whose  individual deductions — for items like a work cell .... wealthy retirement.
evidence_4: sep 27, 2017 ... the gop did not release the endpoints for where the three income brackets ...  apply to the highest-income earners to ensure that the reformed tax code … does  not shift the tax burden from high-income to lower- and middle-income taxpayers.  ... still, it's unclear whether cutting the income tax on the wealthy ...
evidence_5: apr 2, 2018 ... a wage earner with the same profile would also get a tax cut, but a much smaller  ... the benefit takes the form of a 20% deduction that taxpayers can apply to ...  given the law's many other tax-slashing provisions, many, if not most, ... under  the new tax law for upper-middle-class and wealthy taxpayers.