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Because the way marginal taxation works if you make 300k you paid all those extra brackets tax hikes before you got to 300k and started seeing the lower marginal rate.
So to see your impact you add every changed number from the left up to your income, that’s your impact.
Yes it takes a positive turn at 300k, but you’re already deep in the whole and don’t turn to actually positive until around the final bracket.
I know how marginal taxes work and you didn't address my question. If the tax on above $300k is less than it was before you are paying less. What is this about something changing at $1 million?
I think what they're saying (I didn't look at the data yet) is that while the rate at 300k is lower, that lower rate doesn't make up for the higher rates that individual will have paid until that point. So for the individual in question, the net positive doesn't happen until 1m.
Ah yeah. Might just be a bad graph since it says "by income group" and then breaks down by the actual bracket. Not sure exactly which it means still but I think they're right