$52,300 for a family of 4 is what the government needs to collect.

[TheRealMafoo]

Rath said:

Firstly is that the median income before tax?

Secondly the reason congress would do this is because an extraordianry situation requires an extraordinary budget.

Edit: And also progressive taxation along with higher earnings amongst the rich means that using the median rather than the mean income is really quite misleading, the income scale is nothing like a bell curve.

 

That's before taxes. I could not find the mean is why I chose the median.

And that last line means you feel it's ok if over half the country is a tax burden on society, and the way to make that up is to have the rich fit the bill?