What do the 2025 tax law and the tariffs do to your family's yearly income, added together? Here's the answer at every income level — Yale Budget Lab's math, built on the government's own numbers.
Every bar is drawn to the same dollar scale. Scroll right → the striped bars run far past the edge.
Get this as a widget →Decile bars: Yale Budget Lab, combined effects of the 2025 law and 2025 tariffs, average change in household resources per year, 2026–2034 (August 2025 estimates; tariff rates have shifted since — the shape has not). Top 1% / 0.1% bars: Tax Policy Center, average 2026 tax change from the law alone — a different measure, marked with hatching. And none of this counts the interest on the borrowing that paid for it — $970 billion a year, money spent servicing debt, not on anything.
The Real Steal — the full ledger, every line sourced → therealsteal.us