Ten Charts that Prove the United States Is a Low-Tax Country - Center For American Progress

[WillyT]

Ten Charts that Prove the United States Is a Low-Tax Country



Link: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/low_tax.html

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[underpants]

1. We are being scammed

right to our faces

The other way to put (like the ones allowed to be on the TV) is to say that we as a nation we are under taxed -- at which point the 2-5 corporate spokespeople would hoop 'n' holler and squash such crazy talk with either attacks on the first speaker or dreamy delusions about how great the powers that be are.

[FreakinDJ]

2. EXCELLENT summation even Freepers can understand

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Although they may refuse to understand it if it contradicts

what Rush, Glenn, Bill, and Sean say.

They are afflicted with the, "Who do you believe? Me or your lying eyes?" syndrome when it comes to their radio and TV masters.

[Bigmack]

8. Example... I just sent ...

an article from USA Today (fer crissakes!) to a guy on FB who posted about how Climate Change is a hoax. He says he still doesn't believe, and the scientists have an agenda. Holy shit!

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Let's hope you are right on this, Joe... but you are in a real minority here. The science is on the other side.

Report: 97 percent of scientists say man-made climate change is real

Forget the four out of five dentists who recommend Trident…. Try the 97 out of 100 scientists that believe in man-made climate change.

This data comes from a new survey out this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study found that 97 percent of scientific experts agree that climate change is "very likely" caused mainly by human activity.

The report is based on questions posed to 1,372 scientists. Nearly all the experts agreed that it is "very likely that anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for most of the unequivocal warming of the Earth's average global temperature in the second half of the twentieth century."

Click here for an interactive graphic that shows how global warming occurs.

As for the 3 percent of scientists who remain unconvinced, the study found their average expertise is far below that of their colleagues, as measured by publication and citation rates.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/scientists-overwhelmingly-believe-in-man-made-climate-change/1

[FreakinDJ]

9. The incentive to "Disbelieve is financial"

they don't want to believe it because many believe it cost jobs, money, or prestige

I thought much of the myth of the science had been explained quite well (at 11 grade levels of understanding) numerous times yet a lot of people continue to reject the facts. I believe the issue as explained by the non-believers (climate deniers) is designed to centered around financial reasons, which low information types immediately process internally as a threat to their "social instincts"

[amborin]

3. K&R great grahic depiction of how ordinary Americans are being screwed over

[femrap]

5. K and R...

love the graphs. Thank you.

[indepat]

6. Yet the RW mantra will continue into eternity: it's not a revenue problem, it's a

spending problem. :patriot:

[FourScore]

7. This should be required reading for all voters. n/t

[Vinee]

10. I don't believe the data in graph 2.

I pay way more than 26.9% of my income in taxes. I suspect it's closer to 50% than 26.9% once you add up FICA, SS taxes, medicare, state taxes, county taxes, local taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, fuel taxes, capital gains taxes, licenses and fees, taxes on licenses and fees, the inflation taxes, etc. Americans pay too many taxes- middle class working Americans anyways. I think graph 2 is suspicious as well or, at least, the conclusion drawn by the data in graph 2.

[WillyT]

12. That Graph Is Of The Nation's Average Revenues As Part Of The GDP

So may not relate to what you pay individually.

:shrug:

[Beaverhausen]

11. kick

[Tennessee Gal]

13. Great Info!

Thank you for posting.

Why oh why are the Dems not getting these facts out!

[toddwv]

14. That graph has the word "progress" in it.

The right-wingers will discount it purely because of that.