The slice of your income taxed at a given rate. Higher income means a higher rate on your top slice only.
It's a staircase, not a cliff. Only the dollars on the top step get taxed at the top rate.
Plenty of people fear a raise will bump them up and cost them money. It won’t work that way. Take the raise.
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