How much tax does someone pay who makes $140,000.00 a year as a judge .?

Question

This question is for a genius .


This is the pay rate for a judge in my county The $140,000 I mentioned in the question .
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It gets tricky and only a genius can answer this right .

How if my taxes are used to pay them can they even pay a tax with money they got from taxes I paid . Lets say I had to pay their entire salary for the year $140,000.00 If they pay 30% or so in taxes to the government then $43,000 . or so would go back to the government .
" SO I really only would have to pay $97,000. for the Judge saving me $43,000."
Now cops make about $43,000. a year And we will say you pay for their wages -----pretend you are rich and can for a moment .
Now the Cop pays about $12,000. a year to the government .
SO lets see the two of us paid in $183,000. and they only got to keep $128,000. so where is the missing $55,000. we paid out to them in the first place .

Help me here and you play with the numbers and explain it to me .

Answer 1

Red tape is expensive. It costs about $55,000 a roll.

Answer 2

There's no way they pay anywhere near 30% in federal taxes.

I'd be suprised if they paid much of 15-18% by the time they have sheltered some money in a retirment fund, written off mortgage interest, etc. Not on 140K anway.

Answer 3

You forgot the $8000 in Social Security tax and whatever state tax there might be.

Answer 4

This is why lower taxes raise tax revenues because more liqudity of funds stays in the system which are then taxed over and over again. Libs don't understand this simple formula.

Answer 5

Yes.
If it is a Democrat Judge, he will have his millions in Tax-Free-Bonds & in Offshore Accounts.
Just like the Democrat Politicians.