How much do Americans actually spend on taxes?

单独: How much do Americans actually spend on taxes?
Consider sales tax, gasoline tax, cigarette tax, alcohol tax, excise tax, etc. Give a real answer!!!!!! Oh, and state tax, Texas doesn’t have, but we make up for it taxes on everything else. A real answer about what we pay in taxes?

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Answer by CAPE
about 25 -30%

Answer by Brian J
A real answer about what we pay in taxes……

Take a look at page 86 of the Instructions for Form 1040 (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf).

You’ll see that for fiscal year 2006, that federal income from all sources was $ 2.4 trillion.
– the pie chart on the left of that page shows how much (in percentages) came in from each revenue category.

– for instance, just personal income taxes acounts for 39% of that number: that’s $ 983.7 billion. That’s a lot of personal income taxes.

Answer by Pedantic Exactitude
Probably about 50%, as the sales taxes, excises, etc, come out of money that has already been taxed.