My Tax Burden, In Detail

[tongodeon]

Democrats are high taxing, high-spending liberals who raise taxes. Republicans cut taxes because they don't have a big government to pay for. That's the conventional wisdom, anyway. And every year around tax time, some people bitch about how much this President or that President spends on taxes. Recently the Tea Party Movement in particular are up

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[tongodeon]

Yeah, last night after doing the percentages I made this chart. I think it's interesting that I'm paying the same amount in taxes that I paid ten years ago, I'm just paying more deductible expenses like mortgage interest.



For what it's worth it looks like I paid the highest percentage of taxes in 2001 during Bush's first year, and I paid the highest absolute taxes in 2006 also under Bush.