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Where do you get this number from?

Social security tax is 6.2% of the first 113k of income, 0 after that

Medicare is 1.45% for income under 200k, 2.35% for income above 200k.

At no income level do these add up to anything more than 7.7%

http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/240/~/so...



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