Mitt Romney's 14ish% effective tax rate includes his self employment taxes, so I don't know why the Tax Policy Center is excluding everybody else's FICA taxes when calculating their average effective tax rate, which would bring it from 11% to more like 18.5%. The TPC has unhelpfully responded to the "great deal of confusion over how much wealthy taxpayers actually pay" by spreading a great deal of confusion over how much average taxpayers actually pay. Maybe it helps keep the lights on, I don't know.
:: posted by buermann @ 2012-01-24 09:44:51 CST |
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