Oh no. You have state tax, federal tax, FICA. Some places might also have a city tax as well(New York City), then you have sales tax. Then there all the other nickle and dime soft taxes that you are dinged with. The US pays insane taxes. This is a good resource if you are curious:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/how-much-do-americans-...

No, it's not. Federal tax takes a big chunk and then there's paying in to things like medicare and social security. For example, I work in Los Angeles and make 100k pre-tax. Last year my net just over 65k.

Taxes are roughly 50% for someone making 120k. Maybe closer to 45% when its all said and done. There's state income taxes, federal income, Medicare and social security, sales tax, property tax, real estate taxes, and then special taxes on stuff like gas, guns, phone bills, hotels and car rentals, airplane tickets, etc.

For all our complaints about how evil taxes are we sure have a whole lot of them!

If you are normal. If you're particularly rich then it'll be different because the majority of your assets aren't from income and there's all kinds of loopholes. If you're particularly poor taxes will be significantly lower but the threshold is pretty low... The poverty line for a family of 4 is shockingly low.

There's also federal tax, which is around 25%. You then pay state tax on top. I moved to the US from the UK, and the total tax is roughly the same.

4.25% in payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare), federal income taxes range based on how much you make and how big your family is. Large family making little, 0%; Single making $120k, your highest marginal rate is 28% but it will average out to an effective rate around 17% in my experience. State taxes range from 0% in Texas to what the other posts say about California.

paycheckcity.com calculates $120k pre tax as giving 85k in Texas or 74.8k in Calif after deductions.