• regul [any]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    I’m normally a huge pedant, so I’ll point out that using the median would change this number a lot. America is an incredibly unequal country. The average salary in the US was ~$70k, but the median is ~$43k.

    Total federal obligations on $70k is $13k.

    For $43k it’s $6.5k.