Tax Burden

July 19th, 2004

From IRS irs.gov

  • Individual’s income tax: 987,209 million (81%)
  • Corporation’s income tax: 194,146 million (19%)

Something doesn’t seem quite right with these figures, that people provide 81% of the budget while corporations foot only 19%. That would be fine in a world where profit margins were slim, but that often isn’t the case. Obviously it’s more complicated than that, really complicated and well beyond me, but reguardless that figure surprised me.

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