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To get accurate numbers you need to scale either the before or after numbers to reflect changes in the effective overall tax rate over the time period. You als
by potato3732842 1y ago
To get accurate numbers you need to scale either the before or after numbers to reflect changes in the effective overall tax rate over the time period.
You also need to look at overall tax burden, not just federal. It used to be that the states levied taxes and did stuff. Now mostly what happens is that the feds levy taxes and piss it back onto the states in the form of grants to do qualifying stuff.
IDK how this distorts the percentages but it certainly does.
- themafia 1y agoI disagree. This is a way of looking at _where_ the government funding comes from or it's a way at looking at the _share_ of burden by source. The overall tax rates don't actually matter in this case and only implicate how that share is distributed within the group. The point I'm trying to make is businesses used to carry a more significant fraction of federal spending during a period where they had less overall influence relative to the citizen. Now we're inverted. Businesses have excepted themselves from most of the costs leaving that burden to the citizen, but we live in a country where business needs are put well ahead of the citizens. The bigger picture is what matters here.