Could be lying, or maybe they contribute 12% to their 401k, or pay for daycare with pretax dollars, or have an HSA and an IRA, etc. There's lots of causes for taxable income ≠ salary- there's no need to make baseless accusations

daycare max is only $5000

Yeah. Although when I looked at the math[1] it's a moot point since if you make $100k/year you're only paying 15% _without_ any of those mitigations.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2018/03/07/new...

>You are lying.

No, I'm not. Do the calculations yourself.

https://www.calcxml.com/calculators/trump-tax-reform-calcula...

I get that it's hard to believe at first how insane this new bill is. I was in absolute disbelief when I first did the numbers.

A single person earning $100,000, claiming the standard deduction, will have a total federal tax liability of $15,410 for 2018, or an effective rate of 15.4%.