Taxing the rich - what is the cutoff?

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Originally Posted by firstdown

Also how many people making around 250,000 will decide that it does pay to make the 250,000 and instaed make 245,000 and still bring home more money then if they make $250,000. Heres the math. If a person makes 250,000 their additional tax is $7,000 which drops their pay to 243,000 and if they made $245,000 they do not have this additional tax. For people who have their own business they would just change how they pay themself. For the person who said they only work 2 months to pay taxes here is the math. Their tax bracket is around 33% and 33% of 12 months is 3.96 months or around $82,500 if making 250,000. If we jump that an additional 3% now they are working 4.32 months to pay taxes. I just feel thats not fair.

That's the marginal tax rate, not the average tax rate. You pay the percentage on the bracket in which that particular dollar of income falls:
Tax rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia