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Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:33 AM Sep 2012

Could one of our tax experts put together a little table or graphic

that helps people identify whether they're in the 47%?

A lot of people don't even seem to know whether they paid income tax or not (confusing payroll taxes, state taxes, etc. with income tax), so it would be good for them to have an easy way to classify themselves as Moochers or Responsible, Tax-Paying Citizens.

You could do it with a table or graph that displays net household income (or hourly wage adjusted by major deductions such as mortgage interest) on the Y axis against number of dependents on the X axis, so that a person can look up their data on the table or graph & see whether or not they are likely to have paid income tax last year.

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