President Obama promised transparency on how our tax dollars are being spent. The White House boasted on its website “In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama promised that, for the first time ever, American taxpayers would be able to go online and see exactly how their federal tax dollars are spent. And for the third year in a row, he’s keeping that promise. Just enter a few pieces of information below, and the Taxpayer Receipt gives you a breakdown of how your tax dollars are spent on priorities like education, veterans benefits, or health care.”

Too bad it’s all just a hoax. Not only does the Taxpayer Receipt not allow those making over $80,000 per year (unless they have their tax documents in front of them) even join in the little project, it also doesn’t even tell those who can use the bogus tax caculator how much the goverment is really spending. As usual, the White House thinks the American people are stupid.

First, the receipt calculator bases its results on how much a user reports having paid in Social Security, Medicare and income taxes. If you don’t remember what you paid in these three categories, you can select an income estimate, choosing among five statuses that range from “$25,000 income – single with no children” to “$80,000 income – married with two children.” But that’s it: No income level higher than $80,000 is provided. Which means there’s no way for a curious citizen to get an estimate of the tax burden shouldered by high earners.

Maybe that’s all right; the White House only promises visitors insight into the uses of their own tax dollars, not anybody else’s. (And it would be impossible for a simple tool to model the nexus of loopholes and deductions that factor into the tax rates of many wealthy citizens.) But it’s noteworthy that, at a time when the president himself is calling attention to the need for higher-income earners to pay their “fair share,” his administration leaves upper tax brackets out of the income estimate menu.

For what’s it worth, the Daily Mail reports that it took “35 minutes to calculate the taxes paid by a hypothetical $240,000 salaried earner who is married and filing taxes jointly with a spouse, using the same conditions as in the White House’s example for an $80,000 earner.” According to the paper, “that $240,000 salaried employee would contribute toward every federal program more than 10 times what the $80,000 employee chips in, despite earning just three times as much money.” To the Mail, which notes that White House spokespeople declined to comment on the record about the exclusion of high income figures, this is evidence that the administration doesn’t want the public to know how much the rich pay in taxes. Second, that appealing-sounding group of priorities given above — education, veterans benefits, health care — doesn’t include the category that consumes the biggest share of the income tax paid on my own estimated tax receipt: “national defense” (24.64%). And when I click on “national defense” to see a breakdown of that spending, the top item listed is “Military personnel salaries and benefits (5.62%)”, although the second, “Ongoing operations, equipment, and supplies (10.26%),” is nearly twice as expensive. (Even the third, “Research, development, weapons and construction,” is pricier, at 7.62%.)

Be sure to read the whole thing. The same people who want you all to hate the rich and think they don’t pay their fair share don’t want you to know how much the rich are really paying in taxes. (The president excluded, who used every loophole available to pay a tax rate of 18% last year.) The rich, and the middle class to some extent, are shouldering the burden for everybody else. But these commies don’t want you to know that. They don’t want anyone to know how much the wealthy are paying. Sure, there are some super-rich folks like Warren Buffett who use every loophole they can to avoid higher taxation, but the working rich are getting hammered.

Apparently, the Obama administration doesn’t want you all to know how they are working hard to kill the geese that lay the golden eggs.

For more on “tax fairness” go here. Our tax code is extremely unfair, yet it’s not what the progressives want you to think. Just keeping up with the tax code keeps quite a few of us from climbing the ladder

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