Mitt Romney: It's fair I pay a lower tax rate than people making $50,000

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30. Who cares what it includes?

I'm sorry that you don't like facts

But they are what they are.

The tax returns released by Romney on Friday do not include payroll taxes. The 14.1% effective tax rate on Romney's returns does not include payroll taxes. That is a fact - you may not like it, but it is what it is.

The question was asked about the 14.1%, which does not include payroll taxes - it's an effective federal income tax rate, taxes paid/AGI. A standard calculation.

To honestly compare someone making $50,000, you have to use the same calculations, i.e., taxes paid/AGI. That would be 12.488%, which last time I checked, is less than 14.1%. So the premise of the question was false.

A better question would have been why Romney paid a lower percentage in all federal taxes than someone making $50,000, because he obviously does pay less.

Your argument is skewed toward wealth. A lot of people don't pay taxes on capital gains, but you don't discount that in your argument.

Fact: The effective tax rate of a person earning $50,000 is 16.6 percent.

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