The FloorThe household ledger

What the Floor costs you

Everyone is covered. Everyone pays in, by income. Enter yours and see what changes, with every assumption shown.

Your household

If they apply

Your ledger under the Floor

Ahead by

$0

a year, from no change in your pay to the full employer saving reaching it.

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What this leaves out

The cap on itemized deductions and the taxation of capital gains at death are not modeled. They fall almost entirely on households above about $250,000 that itemize or hold appreciated assets, and would make the result for those households worse than shown. The wealth tax applies above $50 million of net worth and is not modeled.

The employer line assumes your employer's payroll is above the first $2 million, where the 7.5% contribution applies. Workers at very small employers would see the full premium saving with no offset.

The rent guarantee is modeled on HUD's national fair market rent for a modest home; your area's figure is higher or lower, and the guarantee covers households up to about 80% of area median income. Owners are not modeled; the Floor's owner backstop is a property-tax circuit breaker for severely burdened owners below median income.

Prices: the package assumes supply programs hold rents and food prices roughly steady. If they don't, the real value of the guarantees falls. Nothing here is a forecast of your taxes; it is one design, applied to one household, with its sources open.