I did our income taxes last night and when all the dust settled, we paid a total of 23.6% of our income in federal, state and payroll taxes. This does not include property taxes, sales taxes or any other use taxes, only taxes based on our incomes.
This was slightly more than last year. Of course, we expect this to be much less for the current year as I retired in January and am now living off our Social Security and my various pensions.
Once our 'wealth manager' gets things sorted out, we'll probably start taking a regular monthly payout from our investment accounts to supplement our income. Besides, my wife turns 70 1/2 this year so she'll be forced to start taking a percentage of her IRA's as cash payments. That won't be an issue for me until 2018.