Hitting Home with Megan Driscoll and Becky Coletta; Episode #3

Hitting Home with Megan Driscoll and Becky Coletta  How national politics shape our lives locally!    Episode 3: Taxes: Slashing spending to save you money? Or are they saving money for wealthiest?   Show links: Distribution by income level of tax changes.  A Distributional Analysis of Donald Trump’s Tax Plan – ITEP https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-donald-trumps-tax-plan-2024/   Distribution of tax cuts in Massachusetts. GOP-Trump Tax Framework Would Provide Richest One Percent in Massachusetts with 76.0 Percent of the State’s Tax Cuts – ITEP https://itep.org/trumpgopplanma/   Extending 2017 Tax Cuts. Impact of 2017 Tax Cuts in MA: MassBudget Fed Tax Impact for MA.pdf https://massbudget.org/reports/pdf/MassBudget%20Fed%20Tax%20Impact%20for%20MA.pdf    Demographic breakdowns in Massachusetts Massachusetts | Data USA https://datausa.io/profile/geo/massachusetts   As top income tax rate dropped, wealth inequality increased 11 Charts on Taxing the Wealthy and Corporations - Inequality.org https://inequality.org/article/11-charts-tax-wealthy-corporations-inequality/   As Their Relative Tax Rate Drops, Top .01% Wealth Share Grows | Tableau Public https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ips.inequality/viz/AsTheirRelativeTaxRateDropsTop_01WealthShareGrows/Dashboard1   How the American middle class has changed in the past five decades | Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/    Meanwhile–watch SALT. Help to MA but more benefit to wealthiest Americans? Cost $1.2 trillion over 10 years? SALT Deduction Cap Future: Repeal or Raise Before the 2025 Deadline? | Kiplinger https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/will-the-salt-cap-be-repealed