Might cut that by converting this year's income to capital gain.

Tax planning makes my ball sac hurt.

Medical: $828.00
Dental: $149.00
Vision: $100.00

Total Cost: $1,077

My out of pocket annual max is $3,000, that means the most I could have paid this year in medical bills would have been $4,077. I ave completed/paid my undergraduate degree and I am in a Master's program currently.

It never ceases to amaze me that, when people consider taxes, they only seem to ask, "What do I pay?", and never, "What do I get?". It's as absurd as walking onto the auto dealer's lot and asking only what your new car will cost, but never asking what sort of a car you're buying.

I guess it's because we can all tell, to the penny, how much we pay in taxes, but it's very difficult to compute the dollar value of the governmental services we receive in return, or forgo in order to reduce our tax payment. But still, it's pointless to contemplate only half of the equation.

I am not clear on if that would be covered under Sanders, but I doubt it would be?

Of course, in addition to the returns that can be precisely enumerated, there's the value of the publicly-maintained infrastructure in which we all operate and strive to prosper. It's very difficult to estimate the dollar value that represents to each of us. Nonetheless, that's the calculation everyone must try to make in order to judge whether they are overtaxed.

All of us, from the most miserly drown-the-goverment-in-the-bathtub Tea Partier to the most expansive Scandinavian-style Democratic Socialist, need to consider both sides of the tax equation before we can decide if we're being well-served by our government in return for the taxes we pay.

Blanket rates without deductions, no offsets for no longer paying for insurance. My increase under Sanders was huge, until I deducted my insurance rate, deductibles, and copays. After that I came out ahead.

I come out behind, quite a bit.

75k less with Cruz and 53k less with trump. 6k more with HRH.

...is just to dissuade people from supporting Sanders. If that's the case, then it belongs in GD: P instead of General Discussion.

According to this I fare great under Ted Cruz and horribly under Bernie Sanders. But the reality is this country would do better under Sanders and horribly under Cruz. In the long tun, Cruz would cost all of us considerably more.

Bernie's "revolution" would strengthen community in this country. Cruz's tax heaven for the well to do would tear our sense of community apart.

They adjusted my income to 2017 dollars assuming inflation was 5% - that alone substantially increas d my taxes - higher income - duh! Also the effective rate they used was 10% higher than what they claimed I had at 28% - that doesn't us to those numbers though - to be fair, I didn't rigorously check their methods at all.

In the text they admit the ignore AGI, it also appears they use the HIGHEST tax rate you hit to calculate the ENTIRE tax liability. So a person earning over 300k is led to believe they are in a higher tax rate due to AGI being ignored and that higher rate is calculated across all earnings.

So on my case it overstated my liability in the Bernie plan by close to 10x. Don't have time to test multiple scenarios but mine was messed up and I expect it is messed up across the board.

but I'm wasting my breath arguing a point that nobody would be disagreeing with me on, so I won't bother.