What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[kandrathe]

Mexico has about $9,000 GDP per capita (PPP). The US has $46,000 - five times as rich. If you think that's at a comparable level of industrialization, then all power to you - you found a single country with lower taxes. Doesn't change a thing, though.

Well, but if we drop the "western" and look at all industrialized nations...

Taiwan, Tax/GDP = 12.4 , GDP per capita = $35,604
The Bahamas, Tax/GDP = 18.7, GDP per capita = $30,049
Quatar Tax/GDP = 2.2 , GDP per capita = $88,222

Besides, going back the the point... The average Tea Party American feels their tax burden is too high. The data we are looking at conflates all taxation together, not that derived from citizens (state & federal income, sales tax, and property tax).

According to this page -- OECD Tax Database

The All In - Personal Tax Rates for Single - No Kids...
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Your Tax to GDP ratio data would be more revealing if it broke it down by tax type. Even this is somewhat misleading since about 50% of Americans don't pay Federal Income tax. Which means that not only do some individuals pay more than many OECD countries, it is the 4 and 5th quintile that pay the lions share. And, it makes sense that the Tea party tends to be more that 4th quintile group, the one that FIT remarked was taxed at effectively the same rate as the 5th quintile.