Happy Tax Day, Part 2

Filed in National by on April 15, 2011

This is an awesome infographic depicting just how miserly the Corporate contribution to tax revenues really are — in spite of their campaign to convince us otherwise. So if you are still doing your taxes, keep in mind that it is individuals who are carrying the tax load here, and if the GOP has its way, they’d make working class and middle class pay even more so their rich buddies can get away with paying less than their fair share. As DD noted in his post, we all bitch and moan about paying our taxes. Time to bitch and moan (to our electeds, certainly) about how our Corporations aren’t paying their fair share. Graphic (and lots of other really good stuff) is from Our Fiscal Security, where they spend part of their effort working to present simple and fact-based (with sources!) data on US tax revenues (click the image for large graphic):

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