Are you asking about how many hours the average worker has to work and pay federal withholding taxes from employment (W-2 wages) in order to fund the government in total (and FWIW, there aren’t enough of us working productively nor enough hours in the day in order to do that given that we run at a huge deficit) or are you asking how many hours on average, the average worker has to work and pay federal tax withholding until they reach their personal “break even” point, i.e. the point at which they have had enough withheld from wages in federal tax withholding for the year so far so they don’t owe taxes come April 15th – because they are two very different questions. And while “Tax freedom day” is based on broad averages based on average personal tax liabilities and withholdings, the actual “Tax freedom day” varies greatly from tax payer to tax payer. And this doesn’t take into account other federal revenues like corporate income taxes, capital gains taxes and estate taxes and other government non-wage taxes and fees, tarrifs, etc.
What I had asked, is this. Taxes are a form of slavery. When Percy the Government Drone wants to pass a bill that will cost 10 million dollars,
Each taxpayer through taxes works X number of hours as a slave to the state. how many slave hours of taxpayer work will it cost? On average.