Send us your Feedback For our privacy policy, click here . For our user agree- ment, click here . Reinhard uses seriously flawed data from the Tax Foundation to suggest that tax burdens have risen. The Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation data show that the federal tax bite on the typical family in the middle of the income distribution is less deep today than it was four years ago. People don't choose to work in order to pay taxes, so cutting taxes will do little if anything to put parents back in the home.
People work to raise their family incomes.