Zombie Tax Lies

Great article debunking the top nine lies conservatives tell about taxes and spending. For example:

6. Americans Are Taxed to Death

This is one of those claims made so frequently that it becomes a matter of faith. But faith doesn't rely on fact, and this one is totally untrue.

In 2008, we ranked 26th out of the 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in terms of our overall tax burden -- the share of our economy we fork over to the government. The U.S.came in almost 9 percentage points below the average of the group of wealthy nations, and some 20 percentage points below highly taxed countries like Denmark.

It's amazing that this stuff has entered the mainstream and stayed there all these years. Again, a failure of the media as much as anything.