at my office there are four employees, we all get paid about the same. The taxes combined equal almost exactly the take home pay of one employee
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Wow!
So 25% is extorted from your paycheck. But, of the remaining money, you pay sales tax, property tax, death tax, life tax, truck tax, tax on every cotton picking thing you do...An accountant figured it out for me about 9 years ago, and of every dollar you earned, well over 60% went to some tax or another.