Alison Acosta Fraser, Director of the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, explains how the tax burden is set to rise even if Congress does nothing. She made this presentation at an event sponsored by the Naples Committee for Heritage on October 22, 2009.

1. What Washington Wants To Do With Your Taxes Alison Fraser The Heritage Foundation Naples, FL October 2009

2. Total Tax Burden If Congress Does Nothing Federal Tax Revenues as a Percentage of GDP, 1965-2082

5. What would balancing mean for tax rates on our children? Source: Congressional Budget Office

10. The Top 10 Percent Paid 71 Percent of Federal Income Tax