Day 8 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From New York Times
The Effective Federal Tax Rate looks at the % of income paid to the Federal Government at different incomes groups. In the graph below you can see how the percentage has changed over the last 30 years:

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Day 7 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From Heritage Foundation
They have graphed the top tax rate for corporations with amount of corporate taxes collected as percent of GDP (since 1960)

From Tax Policy Center
Here is the corporate income tax as the percent of Federal Taxes collected (since 1950)

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Day 4 of 28 Days of Tax Data.
I always enjoy a graph of the marginal tax rate (i.e. the tax rate applied to the income of the very wealthy by the Federal Government). But I don’t know why they needed a 3-D line? From Starboard Broadside

Second graph is of the same data but not as pretty. From Balloon Juice

Here is one I created in 2007.

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Created by Joe Swainson, recent graduate of University Arts London (Camberwell College). He created this poster to show the shift in our world economy with emergence of certain markets. Countries covered are: United States, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia, Brazil, India, China. Data sources are United Nations historical data and Goldman Sachs forecasting data.
Each circle represents the size of the nation’s economy every decade from 1970 to 2050. The countries are ranked by GDP each decade from largest to smallest. Pay attention to the forecast for China, India and Brazil

If you are interested in having your work posted to Visualizing Economics let me know. Send me an email at catherine[at]visualizingeconomics.com with an example and explanation of your design, the source of your data and a link to your web site.
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Red line = net worth of at least $1 million (not including primary residences)
Gray line = number of households with investible assets of at least $1 million

via The Wealth Report
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From CEPR, for the first time (since 1993) the U.S. unemployment equals the total unemployment of the first 15 countries in the European Union:

U.S. unemployment rate ranks 4th to last among the major OECD countries: 
Found via ChartPorn
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