Countdown to Tax Freedom Day

Editor's note: As a special feature for March, TheStreet.com is offering an ongoing series on everything you need to know about taxes. Today is part 15.

Here's something to cheer you up: This year you're working longer to pay your taxes. And only four other times in the past 25 years have you worked more for the government than this year.

At least that is according to the folks at the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan group promoting tax education that annually calculates Tax Freedom Day. ...