[quote=no_such_reality]”Work out the numbers on a spreadsheet… If family earns $30k per year, owns a very modest house, how much in total taxes do they pay (I mean taxes of all kinds, including payroll, sales, property, DMV fees, etc..) as a proportion of their income.
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does family mean one, two or no kids?
Let’s say two
Fed income tax $0
StAte income tax $0
FICA tax $1695
DMV taxes $200????
Property tax $1500. (assuming tax basis of $150k home)
Sales tax figure half of the remaining is bought on taxables that’s $1030
That’s $4425 or 14.75%
Mitt paid 13.9%. Just for fed income
$3,000,000 and another $3,000,000 to charity.
What was his property tax on the $12,000,000 home in la Jolla?
Really $3,000,000 versus $4475 and you want to moan about their tax rate?[/quote]
That $4,475 (taking your number) is far more precious to the poor family than the $3,000,000 is to a very wealthy person.
The majority of a poor person’s income is spent on basic necessities. Very little, if any, “disposable income” is left. Each dollar a poor person earns is very, very precious; it often means the difference between eating or not eating, having shelter or not, whether or not they have heat when it’s cold.
There is no way anyone can say that Mitt’s taxes are more burdensome to him than the taxes paid by poor people.
