If you feel like complaining about taxes today, pause a moment and consider...

The Economist tells me that the "tax wedge"-- the gap between what employers pay for labor and what workers take home in after-tax pay-- is about 30% in the US which is less than most other developed nations and much less than Belgium, Hungary, & Germany where it is over 50% (as a % of total labor costs, based on single person w/out children and on average earnings).