Tax Blogging: T-minus 9 Days
Yes, most Americans have an aversion to paying taxes, and some people get positively perturbed about the whole notion. But how does our tax burden compare with other countries as a percentage of the gross domestic product? Stats guru FiveThirtyEight does the math and provides the charts. Hint: don’t complain; we have it easy. But we also have crumbling schools and pot-holed roads and not a fast train in sight. (Spain’s tax burden is average, by the way, at around 36 percent while Sweden and Denmark, the “happiest place on earth,” duke it out for first at nearly 50 percent.)
If we could just have a system where Warren Buffet paid more taxes than his secretary, we might feel better.