For one thing, many plumbers do make it to the 1%: Trades are a profitable line of work for the industrious.
But the median 1%βer is paying 3-4X the effective rate of the overall median earner.
You have conflated the tax rate with the tax amount.
For one thing, many plumbers do make it to the 1%: Trades are a profitable line of work for the industrious.
But the median 1%βer is paying 3-4X the effective rate of the overall median earner.