President Donald J. Trump holds a meeting with manufacturing leaders on Thursday Feb. 23, 2017. (Photo: Reuters)
President Donald J. Trump paid more in taxes and a higher effective federal tax rate than his predecessor Barack Obama, socialist icon Bernie Sanders and Mitt Romney. According to leaked tax returns from 2005, which leftwing opinion anchor Rachel Maddow on MSNBC bombed in revealing, President Trump paid roughly $38 million in taxes on $150 million in income.
That’s an effective federal tax rate of roughly 25%.
In 2015, Mr. Obama released his federal income tax returns showing he and the First Lady filed jointly and reported an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $436,065. The Obamas paid $81,472 in total tax, giving them an effective federal income tax rate of 18.7%.
In 2014, Sen. Sanders and his wife took $60,208 in deductions from their taxable joint income of $205,271. Of course, they are all perfectly entitled to do so because these oft-assailed deductions are legal under and permitted by the U.S. tax code. They paid a total $27,653 in federal income taxes, giving them an effective federal tax rate of just 13.5%. According to the Tax Foundation, the average federal income-tax rate for a couple making $200,000 to $500,000 in 2014 was 15.2%, meaning the class warfare warrior paid a lower-than-average tax rate.
Meanwhile, on average, millionaires and billionaires–the same group of people Sen. Sanders hammered as greedy on the campaign trail last cycle–paid nearly double the federal tax rate that he and his wife did. According to the Tax Foundation, those greedy evil people paid an average effective federal tax rate of 27.4%, slightly higher than the percentage President Trump paid in 2005.
Lastly, Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, paid $1.9 million in taxes on $13.69 million in income in 2011, most of it from his investments. That’s an effective tax rate of 14.1%.
(UPDATE: A previous version of this article reversed average years for 2005 and 2015.)
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John G. / March 15, 2017
Any particular reason you wouldn’t compare Trump’s 2005 return to Obama’s 2005 return? The data is available.
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Fred Boenig / March 15, 2017
Here it is Obama made 1670995 and paid $545614 that’s a higher rate than Trump. Ihttp://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/files/obama_2005_tax_return.pdf
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StraightDs / March 17, 2017
EXACTLY. And the inter web is abuzz with people not quite smart enough to understand this
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Anonymous / April 7, 2020
BS….Obama did NOT make 1.67million in 2005, as your data attempts to asset!!
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jer / March 20, 2017
A progressive tax system is supposed to result in exactly this but the only reason trump paid anything is the alternative minimum that he is now trying to abolish.
Show us taxes from 2015.
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Bowelybob / March 23, 2017
Compare apples to apples you idiots. Just how STUPID are your right wing followers? Let’s see what Sissy Trump’s 2015 tax returns tell us. You can bank on it that he paid a much lower rate than the Obama’s or he paid NOTHING. ALL the Obama returns are online for all to see. Only you math challenged right wing morons can’t understand it. Go get a GED fools.
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