[Sherman Logan]

Here in FL sales tax is 7.5%. Payroll tax at present takes another 5.65%.

So any employed person here is paying over 13.15% in taxes, no matter how little they make. Much more in reality, of course.

To be fair, much of this is offset by the reverse income tax payments.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Here in FL sales tax is 7.5%. Payroll tax at present takes another 5.65%. So any employed person here is paying over 13.15% in taxes, no matter how little they make."

You can't add sales tax in because a large portion of money spent may not be charged sales taxes. Items like rent, mortgages, interest, utilities, and food and labor in most states, are not charged.

[CA Conservative]

Here in FL sales tax is 7.5%. Payroll tax at present takes another 5.65%.

So any employed person here is paying over 13.15% in taxes, no matter how little they make. Much more in reality, of course.

There is a problem with your math. No one spends 100% of their income on taxable expenses. Most states do not charge sales tax on the biggest expenditures - food, housing, transportation, services, etc. So to get a realistic figure, you would have to estimate what percentage of their income they spend on taxable items. So if they spend 20% of their income on taxable items, the calculation would be 5.65% (FICA) + (20%*7.5%) = 5.65%+1.5% = 7.15%.

[Darth Reardon]

Actually, FL sales tax is 6.0%. The rest is local. Where I live it’s a county tax of 1.0% (applied only up to the first $5,000 of a transaction).