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US Taxes Explained In Terms of Beer

Today, I am heading off to Washington, DC to participate in the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, but before I left I got a neat email from a high school classmate that was, itself, a forward from a now unknown author.  It explains the United States’ progressive taxation system in beer.  It’s worth sharing and it’s an easy way to get in a blog entry before rushing off to the airport.   Clearly, the now anonymous author of this explanation of the tax system was probably a defender of the Bush cut, which I am not.  I think a fun exercise at this point would be to come up with alternative tax plans.  I think, though, that if President Obama and the IRS were to use… Continue reading