Re: Taxes Re: Politically Correct Description of the Third World

[John D. Giorgis]

At 07:22 AM 1/28/01 -0600, Erik wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 11:44:00PM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>> You hit the nail with the first sentence.    I was actually surprised at
>> how low I pegged it.   According to John Stossel on ABC tonight, even a
>> middle class family (husband works as a roofer, the wife works as a nurse,
>> both in St. Louis) pay FORTY-SIX percent of their income in tax.
>
>Is that marginal rate or total rate? For marginal rate it sounds high
>to be me but I could believe it (if I saw the detailed accounting, perhaps
>there are some special circumstances).

It was total taxes - income, payroll, water, phone, gas, electricity,
sales, etc.

JDG
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