John Green

@sportswithjohn Government's total take is likely up.

@Running4Shape you mean as a percentage of GDP? Maybe very slightly, but it's been quite stable since the 1960s. http://www.justfacts.com/taxes.asp 

@sportswithjohn That does not include Obamacare, and my HC has went up 300%. 900/month more. Is that a Tax?

@Running4Shape I can't speak to your healthcare costs, as I am not your insurer. Overall healthcare costs are flat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States#/media/File:U.S._Healthcare_Costs_as_a_Percentage_of_GDP.png …

@sportswithjohn You're on drugs and intellectually dishonest. Health care cost are not even close to flat.

@Running4Shape This is nonpartisan data. It's not debateable whether health care costs are flat. You can discuss WHY, but not whether.

A sportscaster makes a joke and @sportswithjohn flips out? Egads, please get off my planet.

@WontComply I was not aware that posting a graph of marginal tax rates over time in the United States constituted flipping out.

@sportswithjohn How does this compare with Average Earnings? 1975 dollars were worth more than 2015 dollars are now. This is more complex.

@sportswithjohn Al is a well-known conservative. Nice to see he’s trotting out typical right-wing tropes.

@tj_jepson @sportswithjohn Glad to see Liberals are as humorless as ever.

@cbnuttree @sportswithjohn yes, we're all listening to joy division & watching bergman films. just not making up phony stats for cheap jokes

@tj_jepson @sportswithjohn No, you're being ridiculously outraged. As usual.

@cbnuttree @sportswithjohn ah, i see. disagreement with football announcer's politics = outrage. it was just a tweet. nobody's upset here.

@tj_jepson @sportswithjohn He. Wasn't. Talking. Politics. That's the point... lol

@cbnuttree @sportswithjohn context is everything. why make a crack about taxes being higher now? common GOP trope, helps discredit Obama.