To The American Taxpayers Here

With sales tax and other taxes factored in it's about that: fool.com/retirement/2017/03/04/whats-the-average-americans-tax-rate.aspx

This is an example where arithmetic mean does not represent reality. Most self-employed taxpayers can pay half of social security and medicare just like regular employees. They can also write off their property tax and in some places their rent payments. A self-employed taxpayer who barely makes any profit will barely pay any tax.
Taxpayers who make a large purchase can report the sales tax that they've already paid in lieu of state income tax, then write this off in their federal taxes.

But I don't :^).
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