Nice Chart. Does it adjust for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Corporate taxes passed on to consumers, state sales taxes and income taxes, property taxes, etc?
> > Well, there's some truth to part of what you say. I'll ignore the > conclusion - which IMO is faulty - but focus on tax rates. Here's a > table of year, tax rate, and marginal tax rate. You can see that > Obama's tax rates will be as low as they've been since 1955, but you > also see that starting in the 60s tax rates climbed until about 1981 > when they started falling again to where they are now: > > 1955 5.64 20 > 1956 6.38 20 > 1957 6.65 20 > 1958 6.96 20 > 1959 7.49 20 > 1960 7.77 20 > 1961 7.94 20 > 1962 8.3 20 > 1963 8.68 20 > 1964 7.56 18 > 1965 7.09 17 > 1966 7.48 19 > 1967 8 19 > 1968 9.21 20.42 > 1969 9.92 20.9 > 1970 9.35 19.48 > 1971 9.27 19 > 1972 9.09 19 > 1973 9.45 19 > 1974 8.99 22 > 1975 9.62 22 > 1976 9.89 22 > 1977 10.42 22 > 1978 11.07 25 > 1979 10.84 24 > 1980 11.42 24 > 1981 11.79 23.7 > 1982 11.06 25 > 1983 10.38 23 > 1984 10.25 22 > 1985 10.34 22 > 1986 10.48 22 > 1987 8.9 15 > 1988 9.3 15 > 1989 9.36 15 > 1990 9.33 15 > 1991 9.3 15 > 1992 9.18 15 > 1993 9.18 15 > 1994 9.17 15 > 1995 9.28 15 > 1996 9.33 15 > 1997 9.32 15 > 1998 7.98 15 > 1999 7.88 15 > 2000 8.02 15 > 2001 6.71 15 > 2002 6.53 15 > 2003 5.34 15 > 2004 5.38 15 > 2005 5.69 15 > 2006 5.85 15 > 2007 5.91 1 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:295479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
