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Originally Posted by Boreas

Whell, that chart is of tax RATES. That's far different from the actual taxes paid, what with all our exemptions and loopholes.

In terms of taxes paid, we're the lowest among first world industrialized nations. (Also, parenthetically, the only one without a single payer national health care system.) I can't help but thinking that you know this but assume we "clueless liberals" don't.

John

OK, I'll stipulate that for the moment. However, if you're going make comparisons of taxes paid in the US vs other countries, you've got to factor in GDP, and you also have to factor in the labor required to produce the tax revenue. This gets you to a more meaningful comparison, which is per capita tax revenue. I'm going to try to find some data on this, but I suspect the US shakes out much closer to the middle of the pack.