{"id":66590,"date":"2016-04-15T09:35:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T14:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66590"},"modified":"2015-04-15T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:31:51","slug":"from-our-archives-tax-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/04\/15\/from-our-archives-tax-day\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our Archives: Tax Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/56.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-66595\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/56-500x187.png\" alt=\"5\" width=\"500\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/56-500x187.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/56.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>The Numbers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/04\/10\/various-taxes-as-a-of-u-s-gdp\/\">Types of Taxes as a Percent of GDP (1937-2014)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/05\/historical-comparison-of-top-tax-brackets\/\">Historical Comparison of Top Tax Brackets (1945-2010)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/02\/tax-receipt\/\">Tax Receipt for 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/01\/02\/tax-dollars-and-the-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Dollars and War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/06\/donation-and-welfare-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDonation\u201d and \u201cWelfare\u201d States<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Where Did Your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/02\/tax-receipt\/\">2009<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/04\/14\/where-did-your-2013-tax-dollars-go\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013<\/a>,\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/04\/16\/where-2014-u-s-tax-dollars-went\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014<\/a> Taxes Go?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some History<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/12\/03\/fluctuations-in-top-tax-rates-1910-to-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fluctuations in Top Tax Rates: 1910 to Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/09\/22\/taxes-and-the-wealthy-the-effects-of-raising-top-tax-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raising Top Tax Rates Does Not Harm the Economy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Winners and the Losers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/02\/15\/politics-discourse-and-the-real-tax-rate-on-the-rich-and-poor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Politics, Discourse, and the\u00a0<em>Real<\/em>\u00a0Tax Rate on the Rich and the Poor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/20\/changes-in-u-s-income-inequality-and-tax-rates\/\">Recent Trends in US Income Inequality and the Tax Rate (1990-2010)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/19\/social-class-and-the-tax-burden\/\">Social Class and the Tax Burden<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/16\/guest-post-corporate-tricks-of-the-trade\/\">Corporate Tricks of the Trade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/09\/19\/mitt-romney-and-the-47-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney and the 47% Meme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/16\/robert-reich-on-wealth-taxes-the-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">How the Wealthy Design the Tax Code to Suit Themselves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/18\/the-case-for-raising-taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Case for Raising Taxes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/09\/apples-tax-bill-rising-much-slower-than-its-profits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple\u2019s Tax Bill Rising Much Slower than Its Profits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/02\/the-rich-get-all-the-breaks\/\">Who Benefited from the Bush Tax Cuts?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tax Cultures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/01\/17\/u-s-tax-rates-in-comparative-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Tax Rates in Comparative Perspective<\/a>\u00a0(pictured)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/22\/the-income-tax-as-patriotic-duty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Income Tax as a Patriotic Duty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/09\/11\/tax-collection-in-pakistan\/\">Collecting Taxes in Pakistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/04\/15\/guest-post-taxes-and-death\/\">Danish vs. American Attitudes Towards Taxes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/15\/turbotax-maps-out-my-conventional-future\/\">TurboTax Maps Out a (Conventional) Future<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Numbers Types of Taxes as a Percent of GDP (1937-2014) Historical Comparison of Top Tax Brackets (1945-2010) Tax Receipt for 2009 Tax Dollars and War \u201cDonation\u201d and \u201cWelfare\u201d States Where Did Your\u00a02009, 2013,\u00a0and 2014 Taxes Go? Some History Fluctuations in Top Tax Rates: 1910 to Today Raising Top Tax Rates Does Not Harm the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,254],"class_list":["post-66590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/04\/62.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66590","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66596,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66590\/revisions\/66596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}