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Corporate Tax Receipts as a Pct of GDP

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Corporate%20tax%20receipts%204.13.21.pdf

From the Atlantic - Research Proves It: There’s No Such Thing as Noblesse Oblige

Lots of thought provoking stuff in there.   The most interesting part of the experiment, Piff said, came after, when players were asked to talk about what they had done to affect the game’s outcome. The obvious answer was that the fix was in and the rich player got lucky. But the rich players were almost twice as likely as the poor ones to talk about game strategy—how they’d earned their win. And so it goes in the world. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/does-wealth-rob-brain-compassion/618496/