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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day
U.S.
Year — TFD — Percentage Tax Burden
1900 — 22-Jan — 5.90%
1910 — 19-Jan — 5.02%
1920 — 13-Feb — 11.96%
1930 — 12-Feb — 11.61%
1940 — 7-Mar — 17.98%
1950 — 01-Apr — 24.87%
1960 — 12-Apr — 27.88%
1970 — 20-Apr — 29.90%
1980 — 22-Apr — 30.68%
1990 — 23-Apr — 30.80%
2000 — 5-May — 33.98%
2001 — 1-May — 33.01%
2002 — 21-Apr — 30.27%
2003 — 18-Apr — 29.51%
2004 — 19-Apr — 29.69%
2005 — 26-Apr — 31.53%
2006 — 28-Apr — 32.29%
2007 — 30-Apr — 32.69%
Around the World
Tax Freedom Day by country Country Day of Year % Burden Date of Year Updated Source Reference
Australia 122 33% 25 April 2006 Centre for Independent Studies [6]
Brazil 145 40% 25 May 2006 Instituto Brasileiro de Planejamento Tributario [7]
Canada 170 47% 19 June 2006 Fraser Institute [8]
Croatia 166 45% 15 June 2006 The Adriatic Institute for Public Policy [9]
Czech Republic 158 43% 7 June 2001 Liberalni Institut [10]
Germany 185 ?% 5 July 2006 Bund der Steuerzahler [11]
India 74 20% 14 March 2000 Centre for Civil Society [12]
Israel 207 ?% 26 July 2006 Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies [13]
Lithuania 125 34% 5 May 2005 Lithuanian Free Market Institute [14]
Poland 175 48% 24 June 2006 Centrum im. Adama Smitha [15]
Slovakia 169 46% 18 June 2002 Association of Slovak Taxpayers [citation needed]
Slovenia 171 48% 21 June 2006 Free Society Institute [16]
South Africa 112 31% 22 April 2002 Free Market Foundation [17]
United Kingdom 154 42% 3 June 2006 Adam Smith Institute [18]
United States 120 32.69% 30 April 2007 Tax Foundation [19]
Sweden 219 59.9% 8 August 2006 skattebetalarna [20]
Originally posted by zeeblebotThere's nothing more tedious than listening to people complain about their taxes.
is coming up ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day
U.S.
Year — TFD — Percentage Tax Burden
1900 — 22-Jan — 5.90%
1910 — 19-Jan — 5.02%
1920 — 13-Feb — 11.96%
1930 — 12-Feb — 11.61%
1940 — 7-Mar — 17.98%
1950 — 01-Apr — 24.87%
1960 — 12-Apr — 27.88%
1970 — 20-Apr — 29.90%
1980 — 22-Apr — 30.68%
1990 — 23-Apr — 30.80 ...[text shortened]... 0 32.69% 30 April 2007 Tax Foundation [19]
Sweden 219 59.9% 8 August 2006 skattebetalarna [20]
Originally posted by AmauroteThe USNS Mercy hospital ship. Then all military expenditures related to Useless Ninnies missions. The equally strategically unimportant missile defense system deployment to Europe. Any training missions that involve cooperation with NATO members not holding their own water in Afghanistan, such as France and Germany and giving half of those expenses to members that continually hit above their weight in Afghanistan, such as Canada. There is no strategic purpose in training militaries that do not cooperate with us. NATO is emo, all that remains is for the U.S. to admit that fact to itself. After that I would trim back on patrolling shipping lanes. If other nations want to protect their exports from piracy, let them pay for it. Then I would let Taiwan develop their own fighter jets. No need for us to help pay for it.
I agree - so which part of your ridiculously inflated military budget would you cut first?
That's where I would start anyway.