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Show Tax Distribution Favors the Poor families in the under $2,000 class. For families with incomes in-comes of $15,000 or more, on the other hand, benefits from total government spending amounts to only about 17"7f of income. Utah Foundation analysts point out that the study was based on national averages and will vary from state to state depending upon the individual in-dividual tax structures and the pattern of governmental expenditures among the several sev-eral states. The overall effect of government govern-ment taxing and spending policies is "a substantial redistribution re-distribution of income in favor of low income groups." This was the principal conclusion con-clusion contained in a Utah Foundation analysis of a study recently completed by Tax Foundation, a national governmental research organization. organ-ization. According to the report, benefits from government spending exceeded the tax burden by a ratio or more than four to one for families In the under $2,000 income class. The redistribution of Income was greatest at the Federal. level where benefits exceeded taxes by a ratio of six to one for low income families. At the state and local level, government benefits bene-fits amounted to 2.4 times the state and local tax burden for such families. Government benefits continue con-tinue to exceed tax burden for most families up to an income in-come level of about $G,000. The report points out that above the $6,000 level the overall over-all tax burden generally exceeds ex-ceeds the benefits from government gov-ernment spending policies. In the $15,000 and over class, for example, estimated total taxes exceed the benefits derived from government expenditures by 160. The study notes that the overall Federal, state, and local tax burden is roughly proportional to income for .families below $10,000. At income levels above $10,000, the overall tax burden becomes be-comes increasingly progressive; progress-ive; that is, taxes claim an increased in-creased proportion of income at higher income levels. The effective tax rate for families in the $15,000 and over was half again as high as the average for all families. The report shows that "the' pattern of government bene-j fits Is very favorable to lowi income groups." Benefits from ! Federal, state, and local gov- ernment expenditures actual- j Jy exceed the total income of ( |