Source: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxes-compare-internationally

Spending reported (in billions of dollars) to FEC by groups including super PACs, nonprofits, party committees, and corporations.

Source: https://readsludge.com/2023/11/01/three-striking-charts-about-money-in-elections//

 Chart: David Moore, SLUDGE * Source: OpenSecrets * Created with Datawrapper

Source: https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

Source: https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-and-worker-pay-in-2015/

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stock-buybacks-have-reached-record-levels

Stock buybacks were legalized in the US in 1982.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/10sy1ft/stock_buybacks_were_legalized_in_the_us_in_1982/

Sources: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-population-over-time

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/

This post, courtesy of Blair Fix, shows the change in the net worth at various Forbes 400 rank levels from 1983 to 2023. Blair notes that the vertical axis (in units of billions of dollars) is using a log scale. 

Source: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/09/24/how-the-rich-get-richer/#sources-and-methods

Source: https://twitter.com/GameofTrades_/status/1698387882321600553

Source: https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621477/bp-survival-of-the-richest-160123-summ-en.pdf