By the way, for those who argue with that second point: when Census looks at the distributional impact of taxes it states that the burden of the corporate income tax is calculated to fall on those who own the corporate capital.

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The Census Bureau's annual snapshot of the economy, released this week, makes the point starkly.

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There is still point of sale information of course, as well as other caches of rich data (census, scientific research results, medical data, etc.).

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