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Corporate income taxes in the United States as a share of the economy are significantly less than the average among developed nations, according to an analysis of the most recent data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Data from the Treasury Department show that U.S. corporate taxes as a percentage of GDP are 2.3 percent, which is 15 percent less than the 2.7 percent weighted average among the other 32 OECD countries for which data are available.
actually, single payer would cost around what we are spending now. (2/3 of every health care dollar is paid by the government now in 2016! Shhh!)
So we could have all those things with very little or no tax increases right now if we just eliminated the limit on income figured into social security and spent less on military and wars.
especially spent less on military
Sources:
David U. Himmelstein, MD, and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302997
Objectives. We estimated taxpayers’ current and projected share of US health expenditures, including government payments for public employees’ health benefits as well as tax subsidies to private health spending.
Methods. We tabulated official Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services figures on direct government spending for health programs and public employees’ health benefits for 2013, and projected figures through 2024. We calculated the value of tax subsidies for private spending from official federal budget documents and figures for state and local tax collections.
Results. Tax-funded health expenditures totaled $1.877 trillion in 2013 and are projected to increase to $3.642 trillion in 2024. Government’s share of overall health spending was 64.3% of national health expenditures in 2013 and will rise to 67.1% in 2024. Government health expenditures in the United States account for a larger share of gross domestic product (11.2% in 2013) than do total health expenditures in any other nation.
Conclusions. Contrary to public perceptions and official Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates, government funds most health care in the United States. Appreciation of government’s predominant role in health funding might encourage more appropriate and equitable targeting of health expenditures.
'There is something profoundly wrong in America when one out of five profitable corporations pay nothing in federal income taxes,' Sanders said in a statement."
THANKS (AGAIN!) BERNIE! A CANDIDATE WHO TRULY CARES!
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Pretty much the same thing she always does to us. Bet she had a lot of advice for Goldman Sachs though 
That'll fix everything!
our taxes. 
...("Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!" , a Harry Truman (he'd strangle these jokers with his own hands for being traitors to the USA).
We need someone to KICK BUTT in the nation's board rooms--wherever their headquarters may be located these days. We need a transglobal butt kicker. We need a tough kid from Brooklyn who will chain himself to a black woman on the streets of Chicago and thinks nothing of getting roughed up and arrested by Chicago cops.
We need...we need...oh, yeah, oh hey! Miracles DO happen! We are a blessed country, indeed, for the leaders who have arisen when we needed them.
We need BERNIE SANDERS! And here he is, running for president! Our trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt. Our hated-by-organized money FDR. Our Taft-Hartley-hating tough little guy from Missouri. All wrapped up in one.
GO BERNIE!
the paying ones just stupid? Not clever enough? Too lazy? They might be in for a huge refund if they cared!
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