[vannrox]

Hummmmm....

[Born to Conserve]

God bless Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

[Whispering Smith]

Top income tax rate comparisons are worthless. What percentage of the produced wealth of a nation do taxes take is a the question. An approach might be to determine a weighted average income tax rate plus weighted average payroll tax rate plus weighted average excise and tariff tax rates.

[ch.man]

I can see that Switzerland rates pretty well!!...

[DoughtyOne]

Let's not kid ourselves.  These rates don't reflect all manner of other methods of taxation.  State sales tax, state income tax, phone tax, alcohol tax, cigarette tax,  gas tax, tax on other utilities, special government surcharges and on and on and on...

I heard something on FoxNews today that made me laugh.  Here it is:

It is becoming harder and harder to support our government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

Spending goes up every year, while our darling leaders court us with talk of tax cuts and other dreams of fantasy.  Every $40 billion dollar increase in the DOE budget will be paid for by Mr. US taxpayer sooner or later.  That holds true with every single budget increase.  Tax cuts?  Don't make me hurl...