The next time some relatively well-off American complains about their tax burden, show them this chart. . .
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What I’m taking away from this graph is that how well I perceive a country is doing doesn’t see to correlate with the tax rate. In other words, when someone tells you higher taxes are going to hurt the economy, this graph seems to imply tax rate has nothing to do with how well/poorly an economy is doing.