Low Taxes

And the tax system in general. Do we actually pay more taxes then other so called progressive countries? Depends how you look at things (taxes per person any one?). Not exactly a typical way of looking at things, but we do pay a reasonably high amount by that amount compared to other countries. Of course Greg Mankiw got a lot of pushback from liberals, though it's a least a somewhat defensible metric, as the links above show.