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That tax cut was to be paid for by raising the cap for individuals earning more than $250,000 annually and requiring more Social Security taxes to be paid by those wage earners.
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Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
While certain state Pass-Through Entity Tax regimes may allow pass-through owners to decrease or avoid AMT tax, W-2 wage earners will be unable to avoid AMT applicability.
—Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Even in 2019, the city of Milwaukee was the only municipality in the county where a single average wage earner could afford the average house by themselves.
—Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
As the anthropologist Katherine Newman noted, welfare beneficiaries typically worked full time, but as mothers and caretakers, not wage earners.
—Alex Park / Made By History, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
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Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
While certain state Pass-Through Entity Tax regimes may allow pass-through owners to decrease or avoid AMT tax, W-2 wage earners will be unable to avoid AMT applicability.
—Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Even in 2019, the city of Milwaukee was the only municipality in the county where a single average wage earner could afford the average house by themselves.
—Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
As the anthropologist Katherine Newman noted, welfare beneficiaries typically worked full time, but as mothers and caretakers, not wage earners.
—Alex Park / Made By History, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Wage earner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20earner. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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