Day 11 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From the Tax Foundation
This graph shows the combined effect of payroll and income tax on married couples living at the poverty level both with and without children (1970-2006).
What is the effect of the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit?
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The shapes of these curves are meaningless since equally spaced tick marks are used for unequal intervals of time.
Good catch. I had not noticed the years were not equally spaced.