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To: SeekAndFind
less than half Bosanek's 35.8 percent rate

Is that her total tax rate or her marginal tax rate?

If it is her total tax rate and assuming she is married filing jointly with Nebraska income tax and SS+Medicare up to 106,000 and only Medicare above that, I come up with a pay of about $357,000. I ignored deductions and exemptions and any capital gains, even though she should have some. If those were included her income would have to be even higher to get to 35.8% total income and payroll taxes. I also didn't count the employer's half of social security. Either way, she is right about at the bottom edge of the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil top 1% of income earners, and I dislike how she is being used as a political bloody shirt comparing the income taxes paid by a 1%-er against a the capital gains of a 0.001%-er.

17 posted on 01/27/2012 1:41:58 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Herman Cain: possibly the escapee most dangerous to the Democrats since Frederick Douglass.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Mr. Buffett released his math here.

Basically, it's line 60 (tax) + SS+Medicare taxes paid (the full 14.2%) / line 43 (taxable income -- not AGI).

Which is to say all the huffing and puffing boils down to him not paying SS/Medicare on the 60 million in capital gains and dividends.

Well, that and the 14.2% ss/medicare tax is applied before any deductions and credits so an individual with a $100,000 salary, $14,200 in FICA taxes, $85,800 in deductions (that's a lot of kids) and $1,500 in income tax has a 110% tax rate, according to his "math".

Worth noting -- as of 2013, there's a 3.8% medicare tax on investment income in excess of $250,000.

20 posted on 01/27/2012 9:37:09 PM PST by RagingBull (Talent does what it can; genius does what it must)
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