Related: Robert Reich posted earlier today that Tesla paid ZERO taxes on $5 billion in sales (earnings?), so that’s just fucking great.

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    22 hours ago

    $36000 would owe about $6k in federal taxes, or about 17% total across the brackets. That’s including deductions for social security and all. I know some states have income taxes, but those are state taxes, not US taxes. Do any of those push people into the 27% range at that income level?

    Completely unnecessary with the lack of high income taxes or wealth taxes nonetheless.

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        17 hours ago

        Well, sort of since they tend to get it down to 0, which is sort of an undefined or infinite amount more any taxpayer pays.

        I’m just hoping people aren’t overpaying their taxes by improperly deducting, which someimes seems to be the case with how taxes are referred.

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      21 hours ago

      It’s really gross to me how people misrepresent taxes so often.

      And especially people who I KNOW aren’t complaining about OASDI and Medicare, other than perhaps they need MORE funding. Yet they include those when they toss out random numbers like “25%”.

      The tax rates are defined and published. These aren’t fuzzy numbers we can play with, like survey results or experimental measurements or estimates. It’s literally just math and yet people refuse to do it.

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        21 hours ago

        Hell, my in-laws continue to itemize their deductions in amounts less than the standard. They think they’ll get audited of they don’t. I’ll never understand it and I cannot go over it again with them for my own sake.