tax trap
tax trap {n.}, {informal}
Predicament in which taxpayers in middle-income brackets are required to pay steeply progressive rates of taxation as their earnings rise with inflation but their personal exemptions remain fixed, resulting in a loss of real disposable income.
Everybody in my neighborhood has been caught in a tax trap.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
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