http://kylewingfield.blog.myajc.com/2017...-the-rich/

"...One comparison is how much of this bill’s benefits they receive relative to how much of the tax they pay*. I’ve compiled two tables from data I got from the left-leaning Tax Policy Center (see below for links and explanations). The first table compares the proportion of all income tax paid by each group to the proportion of this tax bill’s benefits they receive**. See it here:
https://cmgajckylewingfield.files.wordpr...c-2017.jpg


As you can see, the bottom four income groups all receive a larger share of the tax bill’s benefits than the share they pay in federal income taxes (see the fourth column, where a positive number is better). Even within the top quintile, the top 1 percent gets a smaller share of the tax bill’s benefits relative to what they pay in income taxes.
So, yeah, maybe it doesn’t look like a lot to say the bottom quintile gets only 1 percent of the tax cut. But in light of the fact that group pays minus-4 percent of all income taxes, it looks much better.
The second table makes the same comparison, but uses all federal taxes paid (not just income tax).
https://cmgajckylewingfield.files.wordpr...c-2017.jpg

The distribution is more even when other federal taxes are taken into account. Still, the basic story is the same: The bottom income groups fare better than the top groups relative to what they pay now (except for an odd advantage in this case for those in the 96th through 99th percentiles; I’m not sure how to explain that)...."