[Vision2020] Cost of Government Day

[Dale Courtney]

Ron sends: 

> Well, no not all taxes have been increasing.  Tax receipts 
> will increase as the economy grows, assuming no change in 
> rates.  The way to assess this is to look at taxes as a 
> percentage of the gross domestic product.  The OECD has a 
> site comparing the GDP percentage of different kinds of taxes,
> 1965-2002: http://www.ctj.org/pdf/oecd.pdf

Another liberal think-tank -- not that they would be biased, mind you. 

The *problem* with comparing taxes with GDP is that includes what the
*corporations* make in revenue -- it isn't limited to what the average
worker makes. 

So, corporations could far distance themselves in wealth and the average
person wouldn't see any of it (hmmm, sounds like a leftists argument). 

The comparison, then, for taxes shouldn't be against the GDP (though that
tells one side of the story), but against what the average citizen pays (not
what the corporations pay). 

I'm surprised that CTJ would make such a blunder. Good try, though. 

Best,
Dale