If you're angry about how much you owe today in federal and/or state taxes or bewildered at how difficult it is to properly fill out the 1040 and want to blame someone for something, check out Kevin Osborne's current Porkopolis column about the relative pittance that corporate America pays in taxes. Our favorite line, addressed mostly to the anti-government Tea Partiers: The excesses of Big Business have far more of a direct, harmful impact on the average person than the excesses of Big Government. —-
Meanwhile, the federal tax rate for individuals is the lowest in 60 years, according to CBS News.
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