Making the “Invisible Hand” Visible
Day 5 of 28 Days of Tax Data
From Mint
There is a lot going on in this graphic. First, keep in mind that a “Tax unit” is either a single person, two people married filling jointly, or head of household (for example a single person with dependent child).
The gray dashed bars are the tax units that don’t owe any taxes to the Federal Government. What struck me was that these people can be found at all income levels.
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Some more data visualization goodies…
Two methods for presenting the source for the 1.2 trillion dollar US federal deficit:
From the New York Times
From ThinkProgress
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Instead of income this graph focuses on personal net worth. I found the pie chart at Metrics 2.0, depicting the share of personal wealth by region in 2000.
Average wealth amounted to $144,000 per person in the USA in year 2000, and $181,000 in Japan. Lower down among countries with wealth data are India, with per capita assets of $1,100, and Indonesia with $1,400 per capita.
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