Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life

Re:Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life by aestra on Monday December 09, 2013 @01:09PM (#6875669)

Minor nitpick, the parent said they pay 40% in state and federal taxes and social security and you quoted only federal taxes (looks like the last graph includes Social Security)

I still don't know how much the parent pays in taxes, but that didn't include state tax, either income, property, or sales tax.

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Re:Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life by minikites on Monday December 09, 2013 @01:15PM (#6875716)

What state has a ~20% effective tax rate? I don't see any marginal tax rates that even come close: http://taxes.about.com/od/statetaxes/a/highest-state-income-...

I'm obviously estimating, but when I look at which is more likely, someone misunderstanding tax brackets, or someone paying an insane amount of property tax in a state that doesn't exist, the first choice seems more likely.

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Re:Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life by aestra on Monday December 09, 2013 @01:23PM (#6875774)

I didn't say or even imply any did. I said "minor nitpick."

I said "I still don't know how much the parent pays in taxes."

The GP might be counting all their payroll deductions as kinda a "tax" depending on how you look at it. It doesn't matter, I just pointed out you didn't include state taxes.

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Re:Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life by JackFr on Monday December 09, 2013 @01:24PM (#6875779)

Well, New York State will add around 6% on top of that and New York City will add about 3%. And those are just income taxes.

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