Well, it's apparently the direct federal portion anyway. Doesn't include state and local taxes, sales taxes, or social security. It also doesn't include the money you end up paying as a portion of the products you buy that are directly related to federal rules, policies, procedures or guidelines. When you add it all together, it's amazing we have any money left at all.
So these graphs show how much the government steals from you it’s slaves.
Well, it’s apparently the direct federal portion anyway. Doesn’t include state and local taxes, sales taxes, or social security. It also doesn’t include the money you end up paying as a portion of the products you buy that are directly related to federal rules, policies, procedures or guidelines. When you add it all together, it’s amazing we have any money left at all.
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I think this is why we make a tad more money than we used to back in the 90’s, but we just have less. I see hoochy-mamas in the stores dressed FAR better than I, wearing the designer bags and the expensive heels ... and I’m dressed in clothes from 20 seasons ago. After dealing with the high cost of a mortgage, college tuition (for which WE get no breaks), and then taxes, we have very little left over for discretionary spending — compared to THOSE who pay NO taxes.
We’re truly becoming tax slaves, in every sense of the word.