America officially has the highest taxes in the World...

You've just made an error again after again and I've been jolly decent to inform you of the severity of that error. I'm showing marvellous patience here. So again...

To say "we have the highest tax" you have to refer to data that's comparable. Here that means effective rates. The OP is drivel and you've been caught out spreading deliberate misrepresentation

 

You'll never get it. You're one stubborn individual.

 

Your statement is too broad to be accurate, because saying "tax rate" could mean what they pay versus the nominal rate of tax.

Saying the US corps have the highest nominal top marginal tax rate would be accurate.

 

The problem for you is that I do "get it" and I'm purely objective on this issue as I have no party political grunt to provide. International comparison requires effective rates. Those rates destroy the OP. There's no debate in it

 

I have said that before, but Reiver has a thick skull.

 

Once again, the OP is about nominal rates. I know what you are saying. However, you do not know what I am saying.

 

No the opening post is about making a deliberate misrepresentation with figures that cannot be compared

 

The title you gave this thread: America officially has the highest taxes in the World... , and the Heading of your OP: "The Highest Taxes in the World" both have no suggestion that what is being referred to is top nominal marginal rates, and both falsely imply that the US has the highest taxes in the world, which as has been proven, is simply false.


And while the text of the OP does state that it is the highest rate, it then also makes statements that falsely imply that US corporations actually *pay* the highest rate, like this one: "This gaping disparity means every other country that we compete with for new investment is better situated to land that new investment and the jobs that come with it, because the after-tax return from that investment promises to be higher in those lower-taxed nations."

So despite your machinations, the way you titled the OP and the text of your OP creates the false impression that US corporations and individuals pay the highest taxes. Since you apparently just cut and pasted from another source, you may not have intentionally tried to mislead people, but this is yet another example of distortion and false implication spun by the RW propaganda media and regurgiated in forums like this one.

An honest thread would have been titled and headed that the US corporate tax rate is the highest in the world, and the OP acknowledging the true fact that for actual taxes paid, US corporations (and individuals) pay among the lowest effective rates.

But then, that kind of honesty would not promote the conservative position nearly as well, would it?