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2024-03-25 19:00:42 UTC - HELPFUL
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Misleading. The average teacher salary in US is $66k paying a 22% federal tax rate. Those who make over $609,350 are taxed at 37%. The 8.2% Warren refers to is from the 2021 White House study that includes income not presently taxed as part of federal law. https://www.statista.com/statistics/185025/average-salary-of-teachers-in-public-schools-since-1980/ https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/2024-tax-brackets/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/23/biden-keeps-saying-billionaires-pay-8-percent-taxes-not-really/ https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/mar/08/biden-2024-state-of-the-union-address/ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/08/us/sotu-fact-check?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/Graph-Distributional-Analysis-2024-11162023.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/09/23/new-omb-cea-report-billionaires-pay-an-average-federal-individual-income-tax-rate-of-just-8-2/
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