jbenson2 says:

What a load of BS!
Where’s the beef? (taxes)

Classic liberal spin – a total waste of a posting.

And this came from the government – I thought it might have been the NY Times or the Daily Kos.

bobbo, lying with statistics says:

charts show what charts show. Where is the number of acres lost to forest fires/floods/drought/wind etc?

This chart is not about that subject?

Nevermind.

jbenson2 says:

Bobbo, read the headline again.

The chart is about Where Does The Money Go?

bobbo, taking a second look says:

#6–JB==yes, I almost posted that from the chart, one would/should assume that “the average” consumer did not pay taxes. But I thought that did not honor the effort our editor put into highlighting the refinement of

– - – - DISCRETIONARY SPENDING – - – - – -

I prefer being irrelevant than taking cheap shots that are off point and not helpful.====Although, I do think taxes are very important, so is the amount of Vitamin D in your diet.

Every chart can’t cover every issue—only dirt clods ignore that fact.

Postman says:

#7,

Right there in the center where is says “Income before taxes”

bobbo, seeing the King unclothed says:

Still, the government, AND ITS SHILLS, do have an overweening interest in keeping the great American Public asleep. “Good”/Advocacy reportage would include the tax burden and the national debt at every opportunity. This chart, is by that view, somewhat of a diverstisement.

At least entertainment and alcohol have additional tax consequences. Lots of “fees” amounting to taxes with some of the others.

Death and Taxes.

Of similar interest, would be an analysis of the charts expenses==how much tax revenue is generated by these transactions?

Postman says:

#12,

I agree. They should point out that every penny that this hypothetical family pays in taxes overwhelingly goes to the Iraq War and Nuclear missle submaries that will never be used, and nuclear tiped ICBMs that will never be fired.

It should point out that every other last function of government is paid for by raiding that 10% of their discresionary spending that the chart lists as Social Security.

bobbo, slaps head-coulda had a V-8 says:

#14–Postman==”It should point out that every other last function of government is paid for by raiding…..Social Security.” /// I missed that. Thanks.

Yes, the chart is surely meant to keep us at sleep. But doesn’t one question/fact/argument always lead to another? Thinking–its a process not a conclusion.

jbenson2 says:

#13 Bobbo asks Still–do we need labels to do our thinking for us? Are things most properly what they ARE, or what they are labeled? Is it not perfectly clear what the chart is about?

What you have described is exactly what the media has been doing for years. They spin the information in the way that fits their template.

Hide a figure that represents 33% of the entire chart?

And Obama Transparency? Climate Czar Carol Browner is playing her czar character a litte bit too realistically when she told the Auto Industry Task Force to leave no record of the negotiations, or for that matter, no record of anything at any time.

newrepublican says:

Golly gee. Someone had better tell the Japanese electronics manufacturers they’re wrong:

http://tinyurl.com/mck9a8