Tracking Taxes: USAToday Make A Great Tool to Look Back at Tax Rates and Spending

USA Today shared a fun toy that basically takes all of my wordy research and converts it into a simple interactive tax-rate calculator. You put in how much you earned in any given year, and the calculator shows your effective tax rate and where your tax dollars go.

Note for the app: Your effective tax rate reflects how much you actually pay in taxes. Your marginal tax rate (or tax bracket) reflects how much you paid on the last dollar you earned.

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