10 Chars why the Tea Enough Already baggers are LIARS

[boutons_deux]

The United States is a low-tax country. That’s true for individuals and for corporations, and it’s true whether you compare us to other countries or the America of the past. No matter how you slice it the conclusion is the same.

Conservatives like to claim that our budget deficits are purely a “spending problem.” Said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY): “We don’t have this problem because we tax too little. We have it because we spent too much.”

It’s a popular talking point, but it simply isn’t true. Deficits do not stem from spending levels alone. They are the product of a mismatch between spending and revenue. And when revenue is as low as ours is, you end up with big deficits.

Here are 10 charts demonstrating the simple, clear truth that federal taxes in the United States are very low.

Taxes today are lower than they were under President Reagan. They’re lower today than they’ve been in 60 years. And they’re lower than they are in most developed countries.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issu...6/low_tax.html

[Wild Cobra]

Look at #10. This doesn't apply to everyone. These charts are too general. Marginal tax rates today are only lower for the poor today, but higher for the rich than under Reagan. Tax credits and deductions are greater than the past, and only help those who the law makers decided to help.

Taxes are unfair in many ways, but you have to look at the whole system and not such simple generalizations.

[ducks]

all people in dc are liars

[ducks]

there is more people now then before
their is no reason taxes should be higher now then in the 1960's


I am for a a flat tax
15% flat tax should be high enough

[Wild Cobra]

there is more people now then before
their is no reason taxes should be higher now then in the 1960's


I am for a a flat tax
15% flat tax should be high enough

The number floating around for a flat tax with a single $30 exemption in 1993 was 17%. With all the added burden the government has taken on, we probably need 18% or 19%.

[boutons_deux]

Capital gains is 15%, capitalists will never agree to 17%, and THEY decide, not voters.

[ducks]

Capital gains is 15%, capitalists will never agree to 17%, and THEY decide, not voters.

yeah they are so smart they are the only ones that can always spend more money then what comes

they should decide not voters