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Originally Posted by corporatejay

I think the problem is that most people learn about tax brackets from pop culture and in the U.S. you pay tax at the rate based on the last dollar you earn (i.e. getting pushed into the next bracket cannot be necessarily a good thing).

This is not true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_..._United_States

An individual pays tax at a given bracket only for each dollar within that tax bracket's range.