{"id":26218,"date":"2023-03-14T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T13:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=26218"},"modified":"2023-03-14T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T13:22:42","slug":"image-of-the-day-paying-their-fair-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/26218\/image-of-the-day-paying-their-fair-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Paying Their &#8220;Fair Share?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/6221-bidens-own-irs-debunks-his-class-warfare-tax-myths\">highlighted<\/a> the preposterousness of Joe Biden&#8217;s ceaseless talking point that wealthier Americans don&#8217;t pay their &#8220;fair share&#8221; of taxes, as well as the insanity of resting his tax and budgetary policy on that false claim.\u00a0 In reality, wealthier Americans&#8217; share of income taxes paid dwarfs their share of income earned, and the Tax Foundation offers a helpful comparison graph illustrating our point perfectly:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.taxfoundation.org\/20230125101530\/FedData2023_2.png\" alt=\"Paying Their \" width=\"651\" height=\"461\" \/> Paying Their &#8220;Fair Share?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently highlighted the preposterousness of Joe Biden&#8217;s ceaseless talking point that wealthier Americans don&#8217;t pay their &#8220;fair share&#8221; of taxes, as well as the insanity of resting his tax and budgetary policy on that false claim.\u00a0 In reality, wealthier Americans&#8217; share of income taxes paid dwarfs their share of income earned, and the Tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860,3126,3053,2464,735,3125,4997,71,5208],"class_list":["post-26218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-biden","tag-fair-share","tag-income-taxes","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-rich","tag-tax-foundation","tag-taxes","tag-wealthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26220,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218\/revisions\/26220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}