We're Broke

Via Balloon Juice, the Center for American Progress has made good use of its graphics department:

But teachers are overpaid and cops and firefighters have a machine gun to the head of state budgets, it's unconscionable to raise taxes on anyone during a recession, and American corporations suffer under the undue burden of the Competition Inhibiting Highest Corporate Tax Rate in the world. So in other words, that left-hand column has to go.