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Tax Freedom Day
Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to pay its taxes. Every dollar that is officially considered income by the government is counted, and every payment to the government that is officially considered a tax is counted. Taxes at all levels of government – local, state and federal – are included.
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Purpose[edit]
According to Neil Veldhuis, Director of Fiscal Studies, Fraser Institute, the purpose of Tax Freedom Day is to provide citizens of tax-paying countries with a metric with which to estimate their “total tax bill”. The premise is that by comparing the benefits received by citizens to the amount they pay in taxes, the value of paying taxes can be assessed.
History and methodology[edit]
The concept of Tax Freedom Day was developed in 1948 by Florida businessman Dallas Hostetler, who trademarked the phrase “Tax Freedom Day” and calculated it each year for the next two decades.[1] In 1971, Hostetler retired and transferred the trademark to the Tax Foundation.[2] The Tax Foundation has calculated Tax Freedom Day for the United States ever since, using it as a tool for illustrating the proportion of national income diverted to fund the annual cost of government programs. In 1990, the Tax Foundation began calculating the specific Tax Freedom Day for each individual state.
Tax Freedom Day only examines taxation, and does not account for debt and inflation as means for funding government.
- Debt comes with a guarantee of future repayment. Governments run at a deficit by promising creditors to service and repay debts by taxing future labor or generating revenue through other means such as sale or exploitation of state owned assets.
- Inflation or currency debasement increases the supply of currency. This new currency could be used to pay for government, but the increased supply results in a decrease in value of each unit of currency. As the value of currency decreases, commodity prices increase as a result.
Leap years have one day more, 29 February. This creates some bias in Tax Freedom Day charts. However, this bias is equal to roughly 1/366, which is about 0.27%.
United States[edit]
In the United States, it is annually calculated by the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based tax research organization. In the U.S., Tax Freedom Day for 2015 is April 24, for a total average effective tax rate of 31 percent of the nation’s income. The latest that Tax Freedom Day has occurred was May 1 in 2000. In 1900, Tax Freedom Day arrived January 22, for an effective average total tax rate of 5.9 percent of the nation’s income. According to the Tax Foundation, the most important factor driving changes in Tax Freedom Day from year to year is growth in incomes, as the progressive structure of the U.S. federal tax system causes taxes as a percentage of income to rise along with inflation.
Tax Freedom Day varies among the 50 U.S. states, as incomes and state and local taxes differ from state to state. In 2015, Louisiana had the lowest total tax burden, earning enough to pay all their tax obligations by April 2. Connecticut had the heaviest tax burden – Tax Freedom Day there arrived May 13.
According to the Tax Foundation, the following is a list of Tax Freedom Days in the U.S. since 1900:[3]
| Year | TFD | Percentage tax burden |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | January 22 | 5.9% |
| 1910 | January 19 | 5.0% |
| 1920 | February 13 | 12.0% |
| 1930 | February 12 | 11.7% |
| 1940 | March 7 | 17.9% |
| 1950 | March 31 | 24.6% |
| 1960 | April 11 | 27.7% |
| 1970 | April 19 | 29.6% |
| 1980 | April 21 | 30.4% |
| 1990 | April 21 | 30.4% |
| 2000 | May 1 | 33.0% |
| 2001 | April 27 | 31.8% |
| 2002 | April 17 | 29.2% |
| 2003 | April 14 | 28.4% |
| 2004 | April 15 | 28.5% |
| 2005 | April 21 | 30.2% |
| 2006 | April 26 | 31.2% |
| 2007 | April 24 | 31.1% |
| 2008 | April 16 | 29.0% |
| 2009 | April 8 | 26.6% |
| 2010 | April 9 | 26.9% |
| 2011 | April 12 | 27.7% |
| 2012 | April 13 | 29.2% |
| 2013 | April 18 | 29.4%[4] |
| 2014 | April 21 | 30.2%[5] |
| 2015 | April 24 | 31%[6] |
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| Type | Rifle | |||||||||||||||
| Place of origin | United States | |||||||||||||||
| Production history | ||||||||||||||||
| Designer | Ned Roberts | |||||||||||||||
| Designed | 1920s | |||||||||||||||
| Manufacturer | Remington Arms | |||||||||||||||
| Produced | 1934-Present | |||||||||||||||
| Variants | .257 Roberts (+P), .257 Roberts Ackley Improved | |||||||||||||||
| Specifications | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent case | 7×57mm Mauser | |||||||||||||||
| Case type | rimless bottlenecked | |||||||||||||||
| Bullet diameter | .257 in (6.5 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Neck diameter | .290 in (7.4 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Shoulder diameter | .430 in (10.9 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Base diameter | .472 in (12.0 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Rim diameter | .473 in (12.0 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Case length | 2.233 in (56.7 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Overall length | 2.775 in (70.5 mm) | |||||||||||||||
| Rifling twist | 1-10″ | |||||||||||||||
| Primer type | large rifle | |||||||||||||||
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| Test barrel length: 24 Source(s): Accurate Powders [1] |
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The .257 Roberts also known as .257 Bob [2] is a medium-powered .25 calibercartridge. It has been described as the best compromise between the low recoil and flat trajectory of smaller calibers such as the .22 and 6mm, and the strong energy but not the strong recoil of larger popular hunting calibers, such as the 7mm family and the popular .30-06.[3]
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History[edit]
Many cartridge designers in the 1920s were creating various .25 caliber cartridges. Because of its size, the 7×57mm Mauser case was a common choice, having near the ideal volume capacity for the “quarter-bore” (called this because the .25 caliber is one quarter of an inch) using powders available at that time. Ned Roberts is usually credited with being the designer for this cartridge idea. Eventually in 1934 Remington Arms chose to introduce their own commercial version of such a cartridge, and although it wasn’t the exact dimensions of the wildcat made by Roberts, they called it the .257 Roberts.[4]
From its introduction until the appearance of more popular 6 mm cartridges such as .243 Winchester and 6mm Remington, it was a very popular general purpose cartridge.[5] Today, although overshadowed by other cartridges, it lives on with bolt-action rifles being available from some major manufacturers.
Conversion of war-souvenir Japanese Arisaka rifles[edit]
Japanese Type 38 Arisaka rifles brought to the United States as wartime souvenirswere sometimes converted by rechambering to utilize more readily available .257 Roberts cartridge cases because commercially produced 6.5×50mm Arisakacartridges were scarce prior to distribution by Norma Projektilfabrik A/S. The neck of the Roberts case would be slightly enlarged to accept handloaded 6.5 mm bullets. The modified Roberts cases are sometimes known as 6.5×.257 Roberts, although the case headstamp may still indicate .257 Roberts.[6] Neither unmodified .257 Roberts ammunition nor the original 6.5×50mm Arisaka ammunition are suitable for firing in rechambered Arisaka rifles.[7]
Performance[edit]
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With light bullets the .257 produces little recoil and has a flat trajectory suitable for varmint hunting. With heavier bullets it is capable of taking all but the largest North American game animals. The original factory load for this is very similar to the .250-3000 Savage.
Improved cartridges[edit]
Remington introduced the commercial version of this popular wildcat as a low-pressure round. At the time there were many older actions available of questionable strength. With a modern action and handloading, this cartridge is capable of markedly improved performance.[4]
One of the common improvements is called the .257 Roberts(+P) which has a SAAMI maximum pressure limit of 58,000 PSI compared to the 54,000 PSI listed for the standard .257 Roberts.[8]
P.O. Ackley said that the .257 Roberts Ackley Improved was probably the most useful all-around cartridge.[9] The Ackley Improved was a typical change of a steeper shoulder coupled with blown-out sides for more of a straight cartridge, providing greater powder capacity.
Comparison[edit]
| cartridge | Bullet Weight | Muzzle Velocity (ft/sec) | Muzzle Energy (ft·lbf) |
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| .250-3000 Savage [10] | 100 | 2911* | 1882* |
| .257 Roberts [1] | 100 | 3020 | 2025 |
| .257 Roberts (+P) [1] | 100 | 3090 | 2120 |
| .257 Roberts Ackley Improved [11] | 100 | 3226 | 2311 |
| .25 WSSM [1] | 100 | 3313 | 2438 |
| .25-06 Remington [1] | 100 | 3324 | 2454 |
| .257 Weatherby Magnum [1] | 100 | 3512** | 2739** |
| 6.5×55mm [12] | 100 | 3183 | 2250 |
Using a 24″ barrel except:
* using a 22" barrel.
** using a 26" barrel.
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