Holiday Reading

Truths & Myths About The Rise Of Part-Time Jobs
What Science Says About Marijuana
The Health Benefits Of Trees
Corporations Used To Pay Almost One-Third Of Federal Taxes. Now It's One-Tenth.

Charts To Email Your Right-Wing Brother In-Law

How Your City's Public Transit Stacks Up
State's Job Growth Defies Predictions After Tax Increases

Tax Collections At Historically Low Levels

The federal government is only collecting 17% of GDP as tax revenue, a historically low level.

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Taxes & Income

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Recent Work On Income Disparity

Some Big Corporations Don't Pay Taxes Either
Truth About Taxes: Just About Everyone Pays
U.S. Income Gap Rose

Misconceptions About Taxes

 

Misconceptions & Realities About Who Pays Taxes

It's Good To Be The King

Ezra Klein's post of two graphs quite succinctly sums up the reason for our current income inequaity - top-down class warfare.

It's Good To Be Rich In America, In Two Graphs

Taxes At Historic Lows

h/t CBPP