X account: Volunteering at my daughter’s middle school finance field trip today (mandatory in MoCo to teach things like budgeting) and we’re doing a simulation of being a taxpayer. Reminder that the median American pays almost as much in SSA/Medicare payroll taxes as federal income taxes…
X account @jbsdc claims that the U.S. median taxpayer pays SSA nearly as much in SSA/Medicare payroll taxes as in federal income taxes.
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Volunteering at my daughter’s middle school finance field trip today (mandatory in MoCo to teach things like budgeting) and we’re doing a simulation of being a taxpayer.
Reminder that the median American pays almost as much in SSA/Medicare payroll taxes as federal income taxes. https://t.co/Ir5HgYswEw
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Volunteering at my daughter’s middle school finance field trip today (mandatory in MoCo to teach things like budgeting) and we’re doing a simulation of being a taxpayer.
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Reminder that the median American pays almost as much in SSA/Medicare payroll taxes as federal income taxes. https://t.co/Ir5HgYswEw
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