What type of tax does the u.s. use? regressive, proprtional, or progressive?

Answer 1

The US income tax is progressive but we have a little of everything here.

Income Tax - Progressive - The more you make the more you pay.

Property Tax - Proportional - The tax is based on the the value of the property.

Sales Tax - Regressive - Everyone pays the same rate regardless of economic standing.

Answer 2

Progressive, which means the people who work hard, save, invest and basically make the country work get screwed the hardest and deepest at tax time. "Rich people" pay far more than anybody else in taxes. The top 5% of wage earners pay 56.47% of all federal taxes. The top 10% of wage earners pay 67.3% of all federal income taxes. The top 50% of wage earners pay 96.09% of all federal taxes. The bottom 50% pay just 3.91% of all federal taxes. How "fair" is that?? I would support a flat tax of about 14%. Russia did this and they have more money than they have uses for it. We, on the other hand, punish those who make a success of themselves. This is because the tax code was largely written by Democrats between 1954 and 1994. They use the tax code to socially engineer how we live and work. They also use class envy to pit one sector of society against another. The Democrats believe that making "poor" people hate "rich" people will benefit their party politically. I don't know about you, but I never got a job from a poor man. I like rich people; they have the jobs.