[akikuchi]

This is one of the least enlightening articles I've seen in a long time. I understand that it's a challenge to succinctly summarize a 73 page paper in 300 words, but here the author seems to be happy to use the paper's "findings" to support a extremely simplified "fact" about the current tax system.

The numbers cited in the article are based on a wide collection of parameters/assumptions, but that is ignored in the summary.

Interestingly, the paper on which the article is based was directly supported by fairtax.org- an organization solely dedicated to a drastic restructuring of the tax system.

The all in tax burden at different levels of income is a very interesting concept to explore. But here it seems like both the journalist and the paper's authors have addressed the issue with a bias which takes away from what could otherwise be a very interesting subject.