Oh, no I know.

But when you have conversation about taxes, one of the ways people try to convince everyone that rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes, is an aggressive cherry-picking of the data. It's on purpose, and it's deceptive.

For example, they'll pick 2020, which was peak covid relief, and a massive outlier. They'll focus on income, because it reinforces their point.

Like, covid relief is over, the Trump tax cuts just expired (hiking taxes on lower income Americans), and inflation is going gangbusters on cost of living.

So liiiiiiiike... we can't ignore this stuff.