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The first graphic is geniusly deceptive:

"See, we take a little bit from everyone, shuffle it around a bit and return it back to everyone. Hooray!"

When it reality, the actual result is the red section loses dots which just go blue green and yellow groups.

I particularly like the way they don't put an earnings scale on the second graph to show that it implies everyone earning more than about $40k per year has less money than before.

Now try telling someone on $50k in the Bay Area that their net tax increase is mostly going to go to people not receiving any welfare at the moment, most probably because they don't actually need the money enough to even think of registering as looking for work...

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