Trump - "We have the highest taxes anywhere in the world"... Verdict?

[Bubzer]

FALSE! The U.S. is second to last on the OECD scale.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has repeatedly (here and here) said the United States is a high-tax country. As he put it recently, “If you look at what’s going on, we have the highest taxes anywhere in the world. We pay more business tax, we pay more personal tax. We have the highest taxes in the world.” The truth is the opposite.

In fact, the United States is a low-tax country, collecting less in taxes as a share of the economy than virtually any other member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as the graph shows. In addition, U.S. corporate taxes as a share of the economy are below the OECD average.

http://www.cbpp.org/blog/trumps-tax-misstatement

[onecaliberal]

1. Pants on fire lie.

[nichomachus]

2. And all those other countries get something for the taxes

Healthcare, education -- sometimes free college, and so on.

[Person 2713]

5. Yes that too!

[Nevernose]

7. But we've got the best military money can buy!

USA! USA! USA!

[Recursion]

3. We have one of the higher corporate tax rates in the world, which I assume was what he meant

But as this shows it doesn't actually yield all that much money comparatively.

[Jitter65]

4. We don't need to lower corporate taxes, just define and collect windfall profit taxes.

Corporations know they don't pay more in real taxes here. It's the cheap labor they are going after when they move there manufacturing off-shore.

[spanone]

6. his talent is lying out of both sides of his mouth

[pansypoo53219]

8. i have to see from BEING in denmark TWICE. they are HAPPY PEOPLE. they do not have worries.

lol. even the drug dealer i encountered was polite. tho, he didn't even ask me if i wanted to buy. hmm.

[Doctor_J]

9. Republicans and hillarians are on an anti tax rampage this week

They prefer hugely expensive for profit healthcare to an income tax increase of $100/year for most families that would pay for healthcare for everyone.

[pampango]

10. Who is polluting republican fear-mongering with FACTS? Trump wants to cut taxes, facts be damned.

Everyone knows that all the European countries high up in that list are just plain ol' socialists.