Posted on 08/31/2017 8:48:22 PM PDT by gubamyster
Americans spent more money on taxes than they did on food and clothing last year, according to data released earlier this week.
In an assessment of “Consumer Expenditures” for 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the average bill for federal, state and local taxes was $10,489.
By comparison, Americans spent $9,006 on food and clothes, with most of that going toward food.
CNSNews.com first pointed out the findings. While it may not come as a surprise that American households are shelling out to Uncle Sam, the data showed that bill has risen sharply in recent years -- the average tax bill rose 41 percent overall since 2013.
According to the BLS, federal income taxes rose from $5,743 to $8,367 in that period. State and local income taxes rose from $1,629 to $2,046.
The stats come as President Trump prepares to pressure Congress to pass tax reform. In a Missouri speech on Wednesday, he called for simplifying the system and lowering rates.
"This enormous complexity is very unfair," the president said. "It disadvantages ordinary Americans who don’t have an army of accountants while benefiting deep-pocketed special interests."
According to BLS, the largest expense for Americans in 2016 was on “housing,” costing an average consumer unit $18,886 during the year.
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It’s like mom and dad taking our paper route money and giving us an allowance from it, then they head for the local bar to blow the rest.
Highest single item on each and every grocery receipt for me is
Not meat
Not cheese
Not milk or eggs
It’s sales tax !!!
Don’t forget, in CA next mouth the leftist will add about .14 per gallon tax on already sky high gas taxes in CA.
Sounds like you had rotten parents.
I would look. It used to be that US taxpayers payed more in taxes than food, clothing and Housing!. I see nothing in return except regulations that hurt me.
You pay sales tax on food?
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For decades Middle America has been looted by taxes and economically gang banged by extreme corrupt in D.C.
(CNSNews.com) - Americans on average spent more on taxes in 2016 than they did on food and clothing combined, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/bls-average-family-tax-bill-increased-411-4-years
Cut spending then. Start with pork to states and local governments. After that, cut taxes.
I sure do...Kansas.
You have to pay sales tax on food?? We don’t pay sales tax on food in CA. Everything else is taxed out of control!!!
except property tax
Our politicians are chomping at the bit to change that. They will start with soda pop and chips and then gradually pick up anything they think they can get away with. All for your own good of course.
Not surprising. Obama raised taxes nearly every year he was in office.
If these bastards could do away with prop 13 and not have a revolution on their hands BELIEVE ME it would be gone!! Anyone buying an average house in CA. today is paying HUGE property taxes real estate here is SO OVERPRICED!!!
I am a RE broker in soCal. If you buy a house and stay in it and prop 13 remains in effect in 10-30 years your taxes will be proportionately low compared to what they would be in most other states. And yes the market is up again and demand is exceeding supply and rentals are in demand.
A friend that lived for years in CA described a problem with Prop 13 that we are seeing now in NJ (where property tax increases are capped at 2%): Areas deteriorate when a lot of people have owned the homes for a long time, because spending isn’t reined in but there is only so much to be wrung from taxpayers. Maintenance breaks down as available funds are steered towards the government worker caste, and to compensate, taxes are so high on newcomers they simply buy elsewhere (where there is no built-in overhead yet for an entrenched government worker caste). This problem is different in CA (where there is plenty of empty land to built new housing) than in NJ (where instead of retreating further into the wild, people just move to PA or south - they leave NJ altogether). The urban sprawl is populated not by a growing ghetto population (it is stagnant at this point), but hordes of Asians and Latinos imported to keep the public employees “working”...
Here in NJ I believe prepared food is taxed; the do-it-yourself stuff is not.
The Obamunists wanted to federalize/nationalize their socialism because as matters stand now, those fleeing punitive taxes can find greener pastures can do so within the US. ObamaCare was designed (like Social Security, WIC, Section 8) to ensure that workers in healthy, low-tax states could still be forced to foot the bills for non-workers in desperate socialist “utopias”...
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