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loeglast Monday at 4:37 AM1 replyview on HN

This is a rhetorical sleight of hand; almost everyone pays FICA taxes at some point in their life, and of course there are other taxes than Federal income tax.


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whycombinetorlast Monday at 5:15 AM

Is it? The article is exclusively about federal income tax - spefically the variable part that you have to calculate yourself, not the constant % that's automatically withheld from your paycheck (FICA).