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The article says how much an average person pays in taxes, and how much Walmart costs the government (based on their analysis)... but it never said how much the average citizen pays every year in 'Walmart Tax'. That seems like an odd thing to leave out of the article.

$1.75? I probably don't care. $432? That's more of a problem.

But the article doesn't state it despite it being the headline.

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There's also the choice of statistic. The article says that the average household (composed or hardworking men and women) pays $13,000 in income taxes. But that is the mean. US income distribution and taxation isn't well summarized by a mean, the typical household pays much less than that in income taxes (and probably receives government transfers that exceed their income taxes).

Tough to determine. In my state, it is illegal (as in go to jail) to disclose the value of tax breaks, loopholes.

The quickest fix to all the parasitic behavior is to daylight how much its costing us.

Curious, which state is that?

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