Tax Calculator

In: Politics| Source: USA Today| US Economy

5 Feb 2010

A fun toy for examining historic US tax rates and government expenditure. You put in your income and it graphs the amount of taxes you pay and breaks down what the government spent it on. As usual on this type of stuff, there are pages and pages of comments arguing about the methodology and what it all means. (via).

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and in honor of those tax arguments:

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(originally from here)

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