You'll work 114 days this year just to cover your tax bill

You'll work 114 days this year just to cover your tax bill
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Come April 24, you'll finally start making money this year — money you get to keep, that is. That's because April 24 is Tax Freedom Day, an annual calculation made by the Tax Foundation. This year, the 114 days before April 24 represent the average number of days Americans will work just to pay their tax bills.

On a state-by-state basis, Tax Freedom Day actually varies by more than a month:

(Tax Foundation)

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The Tax Foundation also found that, collectively, Americans will spend more to pay taxes this year than we'll spend on food, housing, and clothing costs put together.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.