From your table, it looks like wages went down from 1977 to 2005, where is all that "economic growth" that we have been told we were having? If wages went down from 1977 to now, and taxes went up in that same time frame, then we are worse off?
Where was the growth? Stick around long enough and Toddsterpatriot will shove his increase in minimal wage table as proof of "growth". He'll also post how exports under NAFTA grew (true) without showing how imports grew several fold faster (just count the credits not the debits).