Alright, errands and obligations are done, time to descend into these figures.
In general, the obvious approach would seem to be to stretch out the benefit out to the top 20% up from the top 40%; which sounds worse than it is, given that the benefit will have declined to a tiny amount by then, and what little they get will be further reduced by their higher tax rate, so per the prior numbers: (4180*2+12060*1.53)/50 = 536.236 loss per % of income increase, or 48.71% benefit loss per increment in % assuming a linear rate of income increase.
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