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Even though the votes are still being counted and the US presidential election results aren’t final, some Americans are already celebrating what seems to be former Vice-President Joe Biden’s victory. Now, they’re taking a closer look at the politician’s policies. And one of them is increasing taxes.

Naturally, when people hear about tax increases, they tend to panic (and blame 2020). But in this case, Biden pledged not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than 400k dollars per year. In other words, around 90 percent of taxpayers would be safe from the tax hike.

Twitter users had a lot of fun showing that the vast majority of Americans had nothing to worry about by posting examples from their lives and how you can tell that Biden’s tax hike won’t affect you. Scroll down to check out the funniest ones and remember to upvote your fave tweets. Let us know in the comment section which of these tweets you relate to the most.

Joe Biden plans to increase taxes for the wealthy and for corporations. However, some Americans were still worried

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CNN explains that Biden plans to reverse some of the tax cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law in 2017 and will raise taxes on the wealthy and on corporations.

However, because of how interconnected economic systems are, those earning less than 400k dollars per year could still see an average decrease in after-tax income of 0.9 percent. Compare that to around a 17.7 percent decrease of after-tax income for those earning more than 400k dollars.

So it’s not technically true that the tax changes won’t affect all Americans, but the changes vary greatly depending on how much you earn. But like with most things, we won’t know how the entire system is affected until after the changes have already been made.

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What Biden plans to do is raise the top federal tax rate from 37 percent to 39.6 percent, subject earnings over 400k dollars to the Social Security payroll tax (which is right now limited to 137.7k dollars of earnings), and raise the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent.

Overall, these and other changes to the tax system could raise the United States anywhere from 2.4 trillion dollars and 4 trillion dollars over 10 years. What’s then done with this money is a whole other issue altogether.