Since you qualified your taxes as a percentage of your income it would be wrong to include taxes based on non-income sources (assets, purchases). Your average income tax rate should be less than 50% and you should be grateful to the living God you have so much to give and are not hungry or in peril.
Late double post
Huh? Am I at Free Republic? Let me check the web address.
BTW...what makes you think I am not grateful for what I have. But do let me say, that what I did took saving, and hard work. I also am not grateful of how I see my tax dollars being pissed away by a bunch of drunken sailors occupying the capitol in DC.
You might want to re-reviw your comment on its conservative merits.