I was just looking at tax freedom day as given at http://www.adamsmith.org/a-history-of-tax-freedom-day/ and so in a moment of madness decided I'd chart the figures in ASCII and write the app to do so in Javascript in Linux and without a Javascript interpreter/editor. Result below. It seems that tax freedom day is mostly later under the Tories (the day in the year is shown on the left, 1 = 1 Jan, 171 = 20 June etc) using their figures. 'Course the tax you pay depends on what you earn and what you spend, and I might also have goofed. But there we are.
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171 * 169 ** 167 ** 165 **** 162 ****** 160 ****** 158 ******* 156 ********* 154 ************ *** *** 152 * * ************ *** *** 149 ** *** ************** *** **** 147 ** ******************* **** **** 145 *** ******************* ******** ***** 143 **** *********************************** 141 **** *********************************** 139 **** *********************************** 136 ****** *********************************** 134 ****** *********************************** 132 ****** *********************************** 130 ****************************************** 128 ****************************************** 126 ****************************************** 123 ******************************************* 121 ******************************************* 119 ******************************************* 117 ******************************************** 115 ******************************************** 113 ******************************************** 111 ******************************************** LLLLLCCCCLLLLLCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCLLLLLLLLLLLL 1965 - 2008
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