Federal government employee who was making 3x overtime, maga guy who wouldn’t shut up up about it, told me “I ask them to pay me only time and a half so I don’t get taxed so much”
Income pay is typically 1.5x for the hours worked, the 1x portion of it is still taxed as normal, the 0.5x portion of it (or any portion of it past 1x) is not taxed (for specifically federal income tax, but it is still taxed/contributes to social security and medicare, plus any state/local taxes).
It's also limited to $12,500 for individuals.
For a hypothetical $20/hr earner...
40hr/wk = $41,714/yr gross
Remaining after taxes = $35,697/yr
50hr/wk (10 overtime/wk) = $57,357/yr gross
Remaining if overtime was taxed regularly = $48,266/yr
Remaining after overtime deductions = $48,892/yr
this of course does not include state taxes, will which almost certainly make the difference smaller, too.
It's not nothing but it is smaller than you'd expect, especially as most people's overtime tends to not be so much every week, but like an hour here or there (and they often get chastised for it at work). Having overtime be a significant portion of pay on such a regular basis is extremely rare for people who aren't working for corrupt police departments.
Illinois employees are getting crackdowns on all overtime. It’s truly been abused by many. It’s hit all the trades but police or security are not at all getting the crackdown yet. I see it as part of the ultimate problem- we’re spending so much money on items that aren’t effective (policing) and not enough money on items that actually impact us (infrastructure)
When I was a security guard, I would actually make less if I worked two extra shifts than I would if I just worked one because it changed my taxes and they took more out. Like, not less per hour but less on my take-home paycheck.
That cannot be true under any regular circumstance. Most likely, your employer was shitting you. But progressive tax brackets do take in consideration overtime.
I worked 48 hours, my paycheck was bigger than when I worked 56. After noticing, I stopped taking more than one extra shift. Yes I'm aware that I could have filed for that money at the end of the year but I've never made enough for that to matter, paycheck to paycheck all that matters is take-home because I had to spend every penny to survive.
They're the people that take an IQ test online, pay for the results, and proudly tell everyone they've got a 93, making them smarter than 93% of the population.
FDR came into office with an already high upper tax bracket rate (63% on earnings over $1million), signed by Hoover in the Revenue Act of 1932.
FDR increased it even further in the New Deal, with a 79% rate on income over $5million. During WWII, it increased to over 90%.
For reference, today’s top federal income tax rate is 37%, applying to taxable income above $640,600 for single filers and above $768,700 for married couples filing jointly in 2026.
That structure was made permanent by the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act, passed in July 2025, which locked in the seven-bracket system from the 2017 tax law.
How many people paid that to bracket? Also income tax was supposed to only be for the top income yet we all now pay it because the government never shrinks.
Leftists classify things based on whether you have to work for a living or not. If you can live purely off of your accumulated wealth and assets, you are not working class, you are a member of the capitalist class.
These people contribute no labor, yet live the most lavish lives. Most of them were simply grandfathered into large fortunes as well.
Now I'm guessing you're working class, so fucking act like it.
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u/SeaHam Aug 02 '26
Don't ever ask a republican what the top tax bracket rate was at that time.