{"id":62488,"date":"2014-04-19T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lclark.edu\/hart-landsberg\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2014-04-19T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T21:28:29","slug":"sat-stat-the-u-s-is-a-low-tax-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/04\/19\/sat-stat-the-u-s-is-a-low-tax-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Stat: The U.S. is a &#8220;Low Tax Country&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">This\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.offthechartsblog.org\/the-top-10-well-11-federal-tax-charts\/\">chart<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0comes from Chuck Marr at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. \u00a0As Marr explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The United States is a relatively low-tax country, as the chart shows.\u00a0 When measured as a share of the economy, total government receipts (a broad measure of revenue) are lower in the United States than in any other member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), even after accounting for the modest revenue increases in the 2012 \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d deal and the taxes that fund health reform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/04\/1-2-Copy10.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62491\" alt=\"1 (2) - Copy\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/04\/1-2-Copy10.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"567\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\">Martin Hart-Landsberg is a professor of economics at <a href=\"http:\/\/college.lclark.edu\/faculty\/members\/martin_hart-landsberg\/\">Lewis and Clark College<\/a>.  You can follow him at <a href=\"https:\/\/economicfront.wordpress.com\/\">Reports from the Economic Front<\/a>.<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This&nbsp;chart&nbsp;comes from Chuck Marr at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. &nbsp;As Marr explains: The United States is a relatively low-tax country, as the chart [above] shows.&nbsp; When measured as a share of the economy, total government receipts (a broad measure of revenue) are lower in the United States than in any other member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1853,"featured_media":62492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,260,3920,85,304],"class_list":["post-62488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-united-states","tag-politics","tag-the-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/04\/1-22.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62488"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62513,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62488\/revisions\/62513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}