It should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about income taxes.
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But much of the rest of the money would come from a new tax on families earning more than $350,000 a year and individuals earning more than $280,000. The taxes, which would take effect in 2011, would affect about 2.1 million taxpayers, the nonprofit Tax Policy Center projected.
The surtax would start at 1 percent and rise to 5.4 percent on income exceeding $1 million.
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The description is poor, but it does rule out your math. The 5.4 percent is explicitly applied only to income over $1 million. And the tax explicitly starts at 1%. I interpret that to mean that it is 1% for anything over $280,000, but, even if this tax worked completely differently from income and payroll taxes, and suddenly turned on, applying to all income, at $280,000, the number would be $2,800.
But that's not how progressive tax systems work. It reminds me of the people during the election who thought they would outwit Obama by lowering their income.