Taxing Times

Chef Jessica Raia-Long is grateful she lives in Florida, where taxes are generally low and state income taxes are nonexistent.

She knows what life is like elsewhere in America.

Americans pay much less in taxes than most other people in the industrialized world.

Surprised?

As much as Americans and their politicians gripe about taxes, the U.S. tax burden of about 24 percent is one of the lowest in the developed world.