The Washington Post’s Owner Really Doesn’t Want You to Know His Effective Tax Rate

Photograph Source: Daniel Oberhaus – CC BY 2.0

The Washington Post has, over the past few months, run at least five editorials or opinion pieces railing against federal or state tax increases.

Here’s what the folks at the Post are not telling you: If you’re an average American taxpayer, you’re paying federal income tax at a rate that dwarfs the rate the Post’s ultra-billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, is paying.

A typical single American taxpayer with an income of $75,000 will...