US has Most Progressive Tax System of all OECD Countries

I don't think that this has been posted here yet, and though it's over a week old already, I thought it deserves mention.  Especially as we go from election-mode to re-organization mode, which by definition I believe means organizing to defeat Obama's policies.

The Tax Foundation wrote last week that "the U.S. tax system is far more progressive—meaning pro-poor—than similar systems in countries most Americans identify with high taxes, such as France and Sweden."  The Foundation cites a table of data gathered by th OECD, and finds that:

The table also shows that the U.S. collects more household tax revenue from the top 10 percent of households than any other country and extracts the most from that income group relative to their share of the nation's income.

The table is available here.   According to the OECD, the top 10% of income earners in the United States pay 45.1% of all household taxes.  That is higher than every single OECD country.  According to the Foundation:

Even after accounting for the fact that the top 10 percent of households in the U.S. have one of the highest shares of market income among OECD nations, our tax system is second only to Ireland in terms of its progressivity for households.

There is no question that Obama plans to make our tax system more progressive.  In his press conference on Friday, he said just as much.  He plans to "provide tax relief to families that are struggling, but also to boost the capacity of the economy to grow from the bottom up." However, he ignores that our tax system already is the most progressive of all developed countries!  

Setting aside the fact that Obama's "tax hike for 95%" amounts to nothing more than a redistributive welfare plan to those who pay no taxes, we see that Obama's plan will put us on the path to increase our lead as having the most redistributive tax system in the developed world.