Triple your income? Pay 10 TIMES as much toward national defense and food stamps

[BlueStateSaint]

The whole title of this article is below.  Nice of the American British media to point this out.

Triple your income? Pay 10 TIMES as much toward national defense and food stamps, but Obama tax-day 'receipt' website makes it nearly impossible to find out

Examples provided for $25k-$80k earners, but not for wealthy taxpayers
 White House won't comment on failure to show massive tax burden of the 'one percent'
 Watchdog says administration is hiding entitlement spending to make the Defense budget look bigger

By David Martosko
 
PUBLISHED:13:39 EST, 15 April 2013| UPDATED: 14:01 EST, 15 April 2013

The Obama administration disclosed Monday, perhaps inadvertently, that a taxpayer earning $240,000 per year is paying into the national defense budget what an $80,000 earner contributes. The same is true of food stamps, veterans benefits, public health services and government pensions.
 
But Americans will have to know how to file someone else's tax return to see for themselves.
 
The administration rolled out a 'tax receipt' Web page on Monday, coinciding with the deadline day for Americans to file their annual returns. But while the White House made it easy to see how much -- or how little -- lower-income and middle-class earners pay to Uncle Sam, it made it difficult for ordinary taxpayers to learn how much the wealthy pay toward federal spending.
 
The online receipt was set up to itemized what Americans' income, Social Security and Medicare taxes actually pay for, broken down along a long list of categories. It also provides a handful of example calculations.

The White House's typical $80,000 earner who is married and filing jointly, for instance, pays $4,590 in federal income tax. Of that, more than $1,130 is devoted to national defense, another $1,030 for health care-related costs, and $792 to a category that includes food stamps, housing assistance and unemployment insurance.

The rest is here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309480/Triple-income-Pay-10-TIMES-national-defense-food-stamps-Obama-tax-day-receipt-website-makes-nearly-impossible-out.html#ixzz2Qd58oxFb

Again, ain't it nice that our (sycophant, Obama-ass-kissing) media isn't the source for this?

[NHSparky]

The White House's typical $80,000 earner who is married and filing jointly, for instance, pays $4,590 in federal income tax.

My AGI for last year wasn't much over that and I paid (quite literally) four times that amount in federal taxes.