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Taxes collected in the US per person since 1800

submitted by blankfist

1 decade 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago

From the ABC 20/20 special "John Stossel Goes to Washington", a 2001 consumer report about the waste and fraud perpetrated by the Federal Government. A number of areas of government involvement are examined including low-income housing, charity, Indian affairs, and foreign policy. Stossel illustrates how government intervention often exacerbates the problems it intends to alleviate. He ends by considering what the proper role of government should be in a free society.

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visionep says...

I don't want to poopoo these numbers too much, but why don't they make this a credible argument and cost adjust this for inflation?

Seems to me that $20 in 1800 would be something like a couple of thousand dollars in the early 1900's, which would then easily be $10,000 by the year 2000.

He clearly says "in today's dollars" when referencing the $20.

Moving this video to blankfist's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Croccydile says...

There are also a crapton more government services now than there was in 1900 as well. Pretty much comes down to "Ok I don't like high taxes but which services could we do without?".

I'm sure alot of people have seen this infographic before http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/

It'd be interesting to see taxes as a proportion of compensation (wages + benefits, etc.). If the average compensation when the country started was $80 per year in today's dollars, that's not a lot of difference from today.

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