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{{outdent}} I want to come back to my original point which is that the OECD study, which the blog posts and opeds are based on, is looking at only the ''Federal'' tax system. State and local taxes make the entire tax system less progressive. I've not seen anything to contradict this point, which I feel should be made in the article, if the point about federal taxes being progressive is made. BTW, payroll and medicare levies are federal taxes (they are used to pay for federal expenditures), and the OECD treats them as such. [[User:Lawrencekhoo|LK]] ([[User talk:Lawrencekhoo|talk]]) 06:32, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

:Well, in other countries local taxes are also present but not accounted for in the OEDC analysis. For instance in Canada the provinces layer on their own income, payroll, and sales taxes but those are also not included in the OECD analysis (but I'll add that Canadian provincial taxes are not deductible from federal taxes the way state and local are in the US for lower income households). Do you have an alternative source that examines total taxes across nations? From what you've written, it seems as if the alternative views are considering only the United States.[[User:Mattnad|Mattnad]] ([[User talk:Mattnad|talk]]) 11:17, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

:Lawrence, did you not read these on total taxation: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/19/other-countries-dont-have-a-47/], [http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/3/431.abstract?keytype=ref&ijkey=65cyoW8oR1QgGoI]? Other developed nations rely much more on regressive consumption taxes than the US does even counting the state and local levels, and such taxes are less progressively constructed than US sales taxes to boot, as are European income taxes. On the taxation front it's not even close. [[User:VictorD7|VictorD7]] ([[User talk:VictorD7|talk]]) 00:18, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

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