Many different factors contributed to lower taxes for 2009. Tax cuts, less sales tax, stimulus tax breaks and changes in income, which are probably a reflection from the unemployment.

This phenomenon is surely something both parties will jump on because the reasons taxes were so low for 2009 isn't completely because the government is giving everyone a break.

Still, stimulus packages for new homeowners and married couples did help. High unemployment of course, means less people working and less people paying taxes, which contributed.

The occurrence is a positive in our rough times when attacks from all angles toward government spending and movements do everything possible to be against anything positive in the U.S. system.

"The idea that taxes are high right now is pretty much nuts," stated Michael Ettlinger in USA Today, head of economic policy at the liberal Center for American Progress.

Written by Amy Munday