25 Nov 2023 2:17 pm
The OP was specific by my reading. Marginal and effective income tax rates from one time frame compared to another. The OP also was talking about a "typical American".Cannonpointer » 25 Nov 2023, 2:36 pm » wrote: ↑ Plus 13.2% in SS, bringing the bottom 50%'s federal tax burden 16.4% - higher than the tax burden of those most blessed by their citizenship.
If you only count one of the federal taxes on a man's income, you only get half the story.
Keep trying with that "digging a little further" thing. You'll get the hang of it.
"So, can any of you conservative retards EXPLAIN, how is it back in the 1950s-1980s, when MARGINAL tax rates were much higher than today, the typical American actually paid a LOWER EFFECTIVE tax rate than they do today?"
Moving the goal post and changing it to total federal tax liability of all income groups is another story.
You know some dummy in the bottom 50% paying 13.2% in Social Security tax? Let me guess, you told him he would get a bigger SS check?