American Taxpayers getting off easy. That's the headline from The Bottom Line on msnbc.com Senior Producer, John W. Schoen. "As the GOP presidential candidates rally around the battle cry of the need to cut Americans' taxes, there's fresh evidence of just how heavy that tax burden is. Compared to the rest of the developed world, though, U.S. taxpayers have it pretty easy. " Well we can't argue with this graph can we? Compared to all those other countries, we've sure got it easy sitting down there third to the bottom.   Spain, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Greece jump off at me. In spite of all their taxes they're bankrupt. Maybe they're not paying enough taxes? Not mentioned in the article is the fact that while taxpayers in the U.S. pay ONLY 24.1% of GDP in taxes the historical average has been closer to 18% and 24.1% is the highest rate since WWII. That's not important enough to bring up. Also not mentioned in the article or included in the graph are sales taxes and state and...(Read Full Post)