The article doesn’t state what it means by “average”, but given that the income figure it sees as “average” is north of $120000, I’d bet it’s looking at mean and not median. Which means their data is skewed by a few high earners and automatically worthless.
(That’s completely aside from the fact that paying taxes isn’t losing money; it’s funding road maintenance, clean drinking water, firefighting, and all those other services everyone, even the rich, needs and uses.)
The article doesn’t state what it means by “average”, but given that the income figure it sees as “average” is north of $120000, I’d bet it’s looking at mean and not median. Which means their data is skewed by a few high earners and automatically worthless.
(That’s completely aside from the fact that paying taxes isn’t losing money; it’s funding road maintenance, clean drinking water, firefighting, and all those other services everyone, even the rich, needs and uses.)