[Mariner]

The cut-off for the upper 20% is about $135k/yr. If you’re over that and depend on deductions and exclusions to pay a moderate tax...you’re double-triple screwed.

So, just about every professional family on the East and West Coast.

[Slyfox]

$135,000 would be any couple who each make over $67,000 per year.

That would be any policeman married to a teacher who have been working for maybe ten years.