What is the effect of the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit?

by Catherine Mulbrandon on February 11, 2010

Day 11 of 28 Days of Tax Data

From the Tax Foundation

This graph shows the combined effect of payroll and income tax on married couples living at the poverty level both with and without children (1970-2006).

Tagged as: Line Graph, Tax Rates, United States

http://www.nbr-graphs.com Naomi B. Robbins

The shapes of these curves are meaningless since equally spaced tick marks are used for unequal intervals of time.
Catherine

Good catch. I had not noticed the years were not equally spaced.

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