In which John falls way down the rabbit hole trying to learn what the average American's life is like--from income to taxation to political ideology to opinion on Taylor Swift. p.s. MASSIVE THANKS to Sheridan Gibson for teaching me how to color correct! SOURCES: Pew and Gallup provided all the political, religious, and other identity stuff: https://www.pewresearch.org/topics-categorized/ This is a good article on the federal income tax averages: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-and-doesnt-pay-federal-income-taxes-in-the-us/ But to understand state and local taxes, I found this helpful: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494 And the overall averages come from here: https://www.fool.com/taxes/how-much-does-the-average-american-pay-in-taxes/ ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://eepurl.com/Bgi9b And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com/ Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info/ Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com/