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New CBO Study Shows Tax Breaks Favor The Affluent (charts)
So who’s getting all this money? The affluent, for the most part. Nearly half of the budgetary cost of the expenditures went to people in the top income quintile, which, for a family of four, means families making over $162,800 a year pre-tax:
Much more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/30/heres-who-gets-the-biggest-tax-breaks-in-one-chart/