In 1948, the average American family with children paid only 3 percent of its income to Uncle Sam. Today the same family pays 24.5 percent. This tax loss exceeds the annual mortgage payment on the average family home. Millions of families stand to benefit. Family tax relief helps families in every state.
Most families are middle-class.
This means that a family cannot get more in tax relief than it pays in income taxes. The first two tables, showing the number of households and children by state, were calculated using the 1991 IRS Public Use File. This data is derived from income tax return forms and the number of dependents claimed on those forms. The tables listing family tax relief by congressional district were calculated using the 1990 Census. Because the sources for the two tables are different, the tax relief calculated for each state will not necessarily equal the sum of tax relief for that state's individual counties.