If you focused more on understanding, and less on finding humor, you might avoid being tricked. I specifically mention “Payroll tax.” Do you use Wikipedia?
When employer contribution is included (as it should be), the tax is 13.85% (or 11.85% with the “temporary reduction”). Assuming Romney pays the maximum payroll tax (13.85% of $110,100), it would still amount to less than 0.1% on his total income. So, given a 10% flat income tax, Romney would pay 10.1% total tax (income plus payroll), while his secretary would pay 23.85%.
You may disapprove of this accounting. However in your posts to date, you didn’t express disapproval, just incomprehension.
In future I hope you reread posts that seem to make no sense, rather than delighting in what seems “funny” or writing “Jesus, Joseph, and Mary.” I do accept part of the responsibility for failing to write “(including payroll tax)” in a large font from the get-go.
