Via NYT: What is fair? As a country that spends more than it collects in taxes, are we asking the right taxpayers to pay the right amounts?

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What is fair? As a country that spends more than it collects in taxes, are we asking the right taxpayers to pay the right amounts? Watch our video report: http://nyti.ms/11a7KA6.

Despite their complaints, most Americans in 2010 paid far less in total taxes — federal, state and local — than they would have paid 30 years ago, according to an analysis by The Times. Read more: http://nyti.ms/SkcZs7.

 

Visit http://nyti.ms/Uwiypx to compare how much Americans paid in federal, state and local taxes over the past three decades. (Credit: The New York Times)