American taxpayers getting off easy

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

As the GOP presidential candidates rally around the battle cry of the need to cut Americans' taxes, there's fresh evidence of just how heavy that tax burden is. Compared to the rest of the developed world, though, U.S. taxpayers have it pretty easy.

Of the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, only Chile and Mexico impose a lower tax burden than Uncle Sam, according to the latest report from the Paris-based grouping of advanced economies.

As politicians from Washington to Athens spar over how to balance federal budgets, the OECD found that the U.S. collects 24.1 cents in taxes for every dollar of gross domestic product. Mexico's collects just 17.4 percent of its total economic output in taxes; Chile collects 18.4 percent. The average ratio inched up to 33.8 percent in 2009, the lateste year available.

The latest data show that Denmark and Sweden continue to hold the top two spots as most heavily taxed.

Since 1995, the U.S. has also been cutting taxes faster than all but five of the 30 countries tracked by the OECD. As a percentage of GDP, U.S. tax revenues fell 3.7 percent from 1995 to 2009. About half of the OECD countries raised taxes during that period. Poland, Ireland, New Zealand, Israel and the Slovak Republic cut taxes more deeply than the U.S.

Overall, tax burdens as a percentage of GDP have stabilized, after falling since the recession of 2007 and the financial Panic of 2008 cut into government revenues. The average tax burden hit 35.2 percent in 2007; the record was set in 2000, when the average burden in the 30 countries surveyed was 35.3 percent of GDP.

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/01/9142784-american-taxpayers-getting-off-easy

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Tax Rates Around the World: http://www.taxrates.cc/

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Corporate Tax Rates Around the World: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/21/corporation-tax-rates-world#data

[Karee 4,191]

As the GOP presidential candidates rally around the battle cry of the need to cut Americans' taxes, there's fresh evidence of just how heavy that tax burden is. Compared to the rest of the developed world, though, U.S. taxpayers have it pretty easy.

Of the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, only Chile and Mexico impose a lower tax burden than Uncle Sam, according to the latest report from the Paris-based grouping of advanced economies.

As politicians from Washington to Athens spar over how to balance federal budgets, the OECD found that the U.S. collects 24.1 cents in taxes for every dollar of gross domestic product. Mexico's collects just 17.4 percent of its total economic output in taxes; Chile collects 18.4 percent. The average ratio inched up to 33.8 percent in 2009, the lateste year available.

The latest data show that Denmark and Sweden continue to hold the top two spots as most heavily taxed.

Since 1995, the U.S. has also been cutting taxes faster than all but five of the 30 countries tracked by the OECD. As a percentage of GDP, U.S. tax revenues fell 3.7 percent from 1995 to 2009. About half of the OECD countries raised taxes during that period. Poland, Ireland, New Zealand, Israel and the Slovak Republic cut taxes more deeply than the U.S.

Overall, tax burdens as a percentage of GDP have stabilized, after falling since the recession of 2007 and the financial Panic of 2008 cut into government revenues. The average tax burden hit 35.2 percent in 2007; the record was set in 2000, when the average burden in the 30 countries surveyed was 35.3 percent of GDP.

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/01/9142784-american-taxpayers-getting-off-easy

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/14/60minutes/main3833797.shtml

Denmark the happiest place on earth.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Bill, it's no wonder you are challenging Nagi for top poster on this board, you respond twice to your own post. Try waiting for others to respond first

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Bill, it's no wonder you are challenging Nagi for top poster on this board, you respond twice to your own post. Try waiting for others to respond first

Don't you have some hippies to pepper spray?

[mawilson 2,133]

U.S. taxpayers have it pretty easy.

I agree. Let's raise everyone's taxes.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Don't you have some hippies to pepper spray?

No, i'm not an officer. You want to volunteer for tactical drills on crowd control? We're always looking for volunteers for training courses.

[Tim/Mav 305]

Maybe taxing StarBucks for accepting food stamps for coffee and dounuts would help. Sends a message. Yes, Starbucks accepts a Food Stamp Card. Life is sweet !

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

No, i'm not an officer. You want to volunteer for tactical drills on crowd control? We're always looking for volunteers for training courses.

Been there, done that. I had a vehicle mounted chemical disperser in my weapons vault when I was a unit commander.

Edited December 2, 2011 by Crusty Old Perv

[The_Dude 1,142]

Been there, done that. I had a vehicle mounted chemical disperser in my weapons vault when I was a unit commander.

Was that before or after you spent a year on this board pretending to be a Blue Dog Democrat?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Was that before or after you spent a year on this board pretending to be a Blue Dog Democrat?

Sorry Rob, you have to play with yourself.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Sorry Rob, you have to play with yourself.

Awww Bill, you don't even want to admit that you pretended to be a Blue Dog to curry favor with Len? I think she would be disappointed in your disingenuous posts.

[SuperDuper! 230]

As the GOP presidential candidates rally around the battle cry of the need to cut Americans' taxes, there's fresh evidence of just how heavy that tax burden is. Compared to the rest of the developed world, though, U.S. taxpayers have it pretty easy.

Of the 34 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, only Chile and Mexico impose a lower tax burden than Uncle Sam, according to the latest report from the Paris-based grouping of advanced economies.

As politicians from Washington to Athens spar over how to balance federal budgets, the OECD found that the U.S. collects 24.1 cents in taxes for every dollar of gross domestic product. Mexico's collects just 17.4 percent of its total economic output in taxes; Chile collects 18.4 percent. The average ratio inched up to 33.8 percent in 2009, the lateste year available.

The latest data show that Denmark and Sweden continue to hold the top two spots as most heavily taxed.

Since 1995, the U.S. has also been cutting taxes faster than all but five of the 30 countries tracked by the OECD. As a percentage of GDP, U.S. tax revenues fell 3.7 percent from 1995 to 2009. About half of the OECD countries raised taxes during that period. Poland, Ireland, New Zealand, Israel and the Slovak Republic cut taxes more deeply than the U.S.

Overall, tax burdens as a percentage of GDP have stabilized, after falling since the recession of 2007 and the financial Panic of 2008 cut into government revenues. The average tax burden hit 35.2 percent in 2007; the record was set in 2000, when the average burden in the 30 countries surveyed was 35.3 percent of GDP.

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Hey Lone! Best leave it alone!

[maning 36]

Maybe taxing StarBucks for accepting food stamps for coffee and dounuts would help. Sends a message. Yes, Starbucks accepts a Food Stamp Card. Life is sweet !

Oh Geez, here we go again... I actually don't give a ###### if Starbucks accepts food stamp cards or not... it's called CAPITALISM and should have the freedom to accept them.

Also, I'm quite the regular at Starbucks and I have never seen anyone ever use a food stamps card to buy coffee. This is just another idiotic thing to get mad about nothing. It's the same ###### when you hear people saying "black people using food stamps driving in cadillac escalades..." yeah that's really prevalent!

Just yesterday I saw a white woman using a EBT card to pay for her groceries, I could tell she was ashamed to use it because she pulled it out and swiped it and put it back in her wallet right away. She didn't buy much groceries either and when she went outside she drove in a late model Camry. She probably lost her job and that EBT card is the only thing to put food on her table. She probably worked her #### off all her life and never had any government assistance till that time, yet she's ashamed to use the card because we have idiots out there equating her using an EBT card as being a leech on society. GIVE ME A ###### BREAK.