What is the median household income?
What is the poverty threshold for comparison? The poverty level varies widely based on the size of the family unit and the age of the members of the family unity. In 2007, the poverty threshold ranged from $9,994 to $46,143. (census.gov) Shouldn’t the middle class pay taxes? Yes and they do! Harding working blue collar Americans pay lots of taxes. They pay sales taxes, payroll taxes, property taxes, wheel taxes, emission taxes, liquor taxes, gas taxes, tabbacoo taxes, toll road taxes, excise taxes, license taxes, permit taxes… and more! Payroll taxes alone take 7.65% of the working man’s pay check before it gets handed to him and combine that with as much as another 10% sales tax at the cash register. Which means for every $1000 earned, a worker only gets to spend $831.15 and that’s just these two taxes! What we object to is taxing the INCOME of lower income people for no other reason than their INCOME. Sure taxing the rich because of their income makes sense – they can afford it. But
