06-02-2015, 05:17 PM
(06-02-2015, 05:10 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Yeah that would be all on you.
It seems overall, our tax revenue to GDP remains pretty constant. It looks like we pay a little higher personal tax to GDP than we did when the upper bracket was in the 90% range. Corporate tax is a little lower.
As well as excise tax, which was never much going back on those records though would likely be higher pre-Civil War. I think ti would be good extra info though to see how much of a role the size of the GDP would be, plus the role government spending had to see how that all played into the debt. Then of course I'd have to add columns for the same amounts adjusted for inflation using 2011 or 2013 dollars or something.
I'm a government bean counter, this sort of thing is right up my alley.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
