diff --git a/artifacts/four-cuts-1.html b/artifacts/four-cuts-1.html index aecb513..40a9964 100644 --- a/artifacts/four-cuts-1.html +++ b/artifacts/four-cuts-1.html @@ -15,12 +15,13 @@ + @@ -117,7 +122,7 @@
You asked to see wealth and tax burden per bracket, total and per person, as stacks of $. Two of these are cleanly measurable by tax bracket; two are not. Rather than fake the alignment, each measure sits on the finest axis its real data supports — and the seam between them is marked, not hidden. Tap ⤢ on any field to focus it full-screen.
-The two axes are not the same cut. Tax data (1, 2) is real, ranked by marginal rate — IRS reports exactly how much each rate generates and who reaches it. Wealth data (3, 4) is real, ranked by income group — the SCF reports net worth by income sextile. The bracket table up top pairs them by income range, but a taxpayer's taxable income (after deductions) and a family's usual income aren't the same number, so the pairing is a guide, not an identity.
Why wealth isn't drawn per bracket at all: the wealth-by-tax-bracket cross-tab isn't published, and any estimate would collapse at the top — the SCF's top income decile holds mean net dollars of $6.63M, which hides the top 1% holding near $44M. Forcing wealth onto the 7 brackets would understate the tail so badly it would lie. The income-sextile cut is the finest honest one, and even it buries that top-1% tail inside the 90–100 slice.
@@ -216,7 +221,7 @@The interactive fields above (especially when expanded ⤢) make strong screenshots for threads. Below are the clean numbers + a suggested starter post you can copy straight into X. Feel free to quote any pie or field directly.