When is humor no longer funny?

[kandrathe]

And once again, we are now drifting away from the Bush tax cuts, what they did, and whether they helped or hurt the middle class more than the rich, into a general discussion of taxes.

However, Eppie is right. Your number for the German budget is crazy; you're off by almost two orders of magnitude. While the numbers are not directly comparable for exchange rate reasons, the German tax income figure is more like 650 Billion to 800 Billion dollars. That dramatically changes the view of the tax burden, to say the least.

-Jester

I found another source which shows $333.33644 billion US for 2005. Which is still 1/9 the US budget.