These charts, from Chris Edwards at the Cato Institute, will be useful for those watching the State of the Union address tonight. Keep them in mind when the president claims that the rich are not paying their fair share, or that “the average American worker paid about a 25% tax rate in 2022,” or that “the wealthiest individuals paid about 8% from 2010 to 2018.”
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Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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