I asked you to look it up.

Go to www.irs.gov and find do the grunt work yourself. You can get federal income tax there. Just remember there is a decent chunk that is not taxed if you add up the deductions and exemptions. Then it stair steps over time 15%, 28% and so on way up into the 30s. So if I have an employee who has half of their income taxed at 15% and the other half covered by deductions and exemptions, then their effective tax rate is pretty low. Mine is maxed out in the 30's with the exemptions and deductions being a much smaller % of the total income. Also I have all of their payroll taxes I pay on their behalf (my business is a subchapter S), I pay property taxes that are much higher (a local homestead exemption eliminates the taxable value of many of my employees houses), state income tax, sales tax, etc.

To top it all off, I not only pay for my fair share of taxes and their fair share of taxes, I also give them great company benefits. A great BlueCross PPO with a 20 dollar copay, long term and short term disability, 75K in term life insurance and a 401K that matches dollar for dollar up to 6% of their taxable income with 100% vesting from the start. Also I give generously to local charities in the general area of healthcare. Now I get to hear some guy tell me I am not giving enough to the greater good. I have some guy telling me that I am the problem and now he even wants me to take the time to look up the public information that verifies my point.

Sorry if I was so harsh before. That really was not polite of me. Still, I hope you can understand how frustrating it is to be judged by someone who has no clue what you (or people like you) do or what you give. Anyway, sorry for the earlier harsh statements about ignorance. I should have found a more tactful way to say it.