[Paladin2]

2 days, min., easy peezy.

[knittnmom]

9.25 days

[thackney]

I only want to capture the taxes we directly pay or are included for specific items (like gas) in the final price. I don’t want to go back five levels into corporate taxes and dividend taxes and factor that in. First it would be ridiculously complex to calculate.

Very difficult to calculate, and would be very, very large.

Second, it would be irrelevant to the results.

Yeah, the government wants you to think that. If you understood just how large that was, revolt would happen quickly.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Pearls Before Swine]

It depends on how much you earn—because some taxes are progressive.

But, if I had to guess, I’d say about 1.7 days per week.

[Organic Panic]

Cities like to call them fees. Indirectly taxed goods add up too. Add even more for regulatory costs. Every thing ypu buy has taxes built in from the producer. I would say upwards of 60% of all income goes to some form of tax or fee.

[SunTzuWu]

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[sima_yi]

The tax burden on the average American family is about 41%. I believe this figure is from the Cato Foundation.

[wbill]

Is Health Insurance a tax? I know that SCOTUS doesn't think so, but the gov't requires us to have it - and in fact, requires specific coverages that may not be needed.

How about Car Insurance? Technically, we don't need to have it, but it's legally required, with mandatory minimum coverages (and enforced by the gov't) if we want to drive anywhere.

I'd think that just making a list of all the taxes we pay on a daily basis would be a daunting task. And, I think 40% (2 out of 5 working days) is probably a little low.

[ready2brd]

That should be a good experiment. I concur that it will probably be around 1.75 days/week spent paying the piper, as studies have shown that across all income brackets the total average tax burden is 35-41%.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Can’t track the built in taxes on services and commodities that make up the services and products you pay the taxes on.

[Lou L]

I decided to find out exactly what we pay in taxes.

But, but...what about roads, bridges and police departments???

[Jacquerie]

Don't forget your utilities. Taxes, fees, and assorted obfuscations amount to 9% of my electric and phone/internet/communications bills in Florida.

[reed13k]

If you capture fed, state, and local (taxes on the utility bills: phone, water, sewer, gas, electric)I’d guess at least 2-2 1/2 days.

[OneWingedShark]

I'll guess 2.45 days. (2.45 days = 7 days * 35%.)

[T-Bird45]

Based on your replies, I take it you’re the author of the blog. First off, excellent project that many will find of value for many reasons.

You asked for taxes not to forget so here’s one for you. Check out the taxes on your phone bill(s), especially that one that’s still paying off the Spanish-American War.

[old and tired]

It definitely depends upon his tax bracket. If he and his wife make over 160k, I would guess somewhere between 3 and 4 days if you’re counting week as seven days, if you’re counting it as 5 days, then I’d say a little less than 3.

[Fithal the Wise]

don’t forget these:

http://www.thepowerhour.com/news2/tax_list.htm

http://www.newrochelletalk.com/node/2103

[freds6girlies]

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[tx_eggman]

After I did my taxes last year I added up my FICA, property taxes, calculated sales tax deduction, gas taxes based on mileage and the income tax I paid and 27% of my gross income went to feed the beast.

God gets 10%