Tax Freedom Day is just one of the Adam Smith Institute's many initiatives - but it has become a national institution, and gives people a clear picture of how the tax burden is rising.

无税日是协会中很多政策的一个-但是他现在成为一个全国性的协会，它给人们清晰的展示了税务的负担是正在上升的。

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Tax Freedom Day 2012 arrived on April 17 this year, according to the Tax Foundation.

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In 1900, the official Tax Freedom Day (the day individual citizens have worked long enough to pay their share of the taxes) was January 22.

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Tax Freedom Day would come 27 days later, on May 14 instead of April 17, if the federal government raised taxes enough to close the budget deficit.

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