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slughead said:
Let's take that as a given (which is not always true). You have $30,000 to spend, with an 8% sales tax you can only buy $27,500 worth of goods (8% less).
With the income tax in this country, in order to have that $30,000 to spend, you'd have to have earned another $15,000 for taxes in order to spend it.
 
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