Tag: comparative tax systems

No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S.

Mar 21, 2011

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by

mwkruse

in Public Policy, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Tax Foundation: No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S. During my recent testimony before the Senate Budget Committee (found here), I cited an OECD statistic that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system among industrialized nations.[1] This prompted one Senator to point out that if the richest 10% of taxpayers…