Comment by Workaccount2
2 days ago
~30% of Americans do not pay income taxes, i.e. they get public services like NWS data for free.
Nothing else you said is wrong, I'm just saying that government services are effectively progressively priced based on income.
For the first part, I totally misread that several times. Sorry about that.
Looking around, the exact number is quite hard to pin down because of the definition of it, but ~30% is probably a very fair estimate based on https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/tpc-number-those-who-dont...