America Is not a High Tax Country

Maybe we are a bunch of whiners and maybe it's because we don't get good value for the taxes we pay, but the US is not a high tax country. Maybe we need to stop spending our tax dollars on excessive defense outlays, ethanol subsidies, oil depletion allowances and corporate farm subsidies and a wealth of earmarks that do nothing but help the same old incompetent politicians get re-elected. Matt Iglesias supplies us with this chart of developed economies and their relative tax burdens.

No wonder we have a deficit. We are unwilling to pay for even the low level of public services we get.