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income rose sharply in that period. All told, the average family in the local area earned a grand total, prior to taxes, of about $56,900 in the past 10 years, the statistics show. A considerable part of it, approximately $7,400, was skimmed off, before they ever got hold of it, to cover Federal income and social security tax deductions. This is only part of the tax burden, however. It is the visible part. There are, in addition, the so-called “hidden” taxes, such as the Federal excise taxes on automobiles, gasoline, liquor, telephones, tobacco, tran* spoliation and the like. The Tax Foundation estimates that if these and the other levies passed on to consumers were included, it would be found that the government collects another $74 in such taxes for every $100 it - receives via income and social ■ security taxes.
Applied to Rappahannock County, the figures indicate that the local population paid an estimated $$,480 per family $8 'r: hidden i*x*f in the 10 years.
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