"First, Rector found that people without high school degrees, like most everybody else, pay a lot in taxes — an annual average of $9,689 per household. That number includes $2,509 in Social Security tax, as well as $1,486 in state and local sales taxes, $1,474 in federal income tax, $1,371 in property tax, and smaller amounts in all sorts of other levies."
And when half or more of their income is off the books...?