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Figure 6: Social Security benefit to earnings replacement rates at age 65

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Figure 5: Social Security lifetime benefit-to-tax ratios

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Figure 4: Components of federal revenues as a share of GDP

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Figure 3: Components of federal outlays as a share of GDP

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Figure 2: Federal revenues and outlays as a share of GDP

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Figure 1: Share of the US population 65 and older

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Figure 18: Public R&D expenditure as a fraction of GDP

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Figure 17: Patents and the income share of the top 1 percent

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Figure 16: United States Tax Reform Act of 1986 and inventor migration

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Figure 15: Inventors and parental income

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