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How much richer would Rappahannock County residents be today if they had not had to pay taxes during the past 10 years? How big a chunk was extracted from their pay envelopes in that period for Federal income and social security taxes? For those people who have often thought about their tax load and wondered how much of their income is shuttled off each year without their ever seeing it, the Tax Foundation has done some figuring and come up with some answers, based upon family averages. Currently, it finds, the first 13 hours of worktime in any week go to pay Federal, state and local tax bills. In other words, a local worker has to put in all day Monday and part of Tuesday to I earn enough for his taxes.
A major part of it represents the amount Unde Sam withholds from paychecks for his two biggest taxes - income and social security. This combination more than doubled in the last 10 years, due partly to higher earnings.
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