This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 426: Congressional Politics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

lets see how we rate...taxpayers

Congress now has a new tool to measure taxes by state, county, city, and everything else you may want to know....we rank near 60th....NOT COOL

6 comments:

Kierzek said...

Neat. Where did you find this site? It's non-partisan which is fantastic. Interesting, though, that the Congressional Districts with the highest tax burdens are in strong Democratic seats. Is that because there are mostly big cities in these districts I wonder? Interesting.

deborahmweigel said...

sarcasm noted. need for it, none.

deborahmweigel said...

and ps. my district ranks 60th and its controlled by a republican.....

Unknown said...

why is not cool? having a high relative tax burden just means you live a wealthy district where people make a lot of money and therefore pay a lot of taxes. sure taxes might not be cool, but paying a lot of income taxes goes hand-in-hand with making money under any tax plan i've ever seen, from either party.

deborahmweigel said...

and tax cuts spur economic growth. More taxes do not.

"JPO" Joseph Ohler said...

…“Economic growth” being reinvestment of those funds into the hands of the same shareholders, who buy the vast majority of their products from the same small group of CEOs, resulting in most of America’s money changing hands exclusively amongst the ranks of the rich. America needs a secure social net and to allocate more financial aid with lower interest!

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