Posted on 04/17/2018 6:04:47 AM PDT by artichokegrower
As you filed your taxes this year, you might have spent some time grumbling. Why does it have to be so complicated? Am I paying too much? Couldn't the system be more fair?
But it's at this time of year when you ought to consider that as an American, when it comes to taxes you've got it easy.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Just paid my federal income, social security, medicare, state income, property, on going fuel and sales taxes. Not much left to pay more with. Maybe as a maker I am reluctant to give my money to the takers.
Instead, maybe Americans don’t actually need so many phony “services” designed to increase the Left’s power. Just a thought...
Most of what we pay now is just used to buy votes for politicians.
Americans don’t pay enough taxes? Didn’t we go to war against England over a 3% tax? But now 30% (roughly) isn’t enough?
The correct title and article should be American Government Spends Too Much.
God, the Giver of everything we have, only required ten percent in Old Testament times. That should be enough for Greedy Government.
The ignorant squawking of a new generation of pathetic, brain-washed, socialists.
This isn’t half the story. Sales tax, property tax, convenience tax and on and on. Most Americans are too stupid to understand this.
Nothing is more pathetic than somebody screaming in delight that they got a “refund” of $1200 from the IRS. Paying $10,000 to get $1200 is not a profit. Government was smart. Take and take from every check so they don’t even miss it, then “give back” a small percentage so they look like heroes come April.
“Americans don’t pay enough taxes”
(Expletive deleted) you. I pay enough (Expletive deleted) (Expletive deleted) taxes. (Expletive deleted) off!
a system that makes it easier for a small number of people to get super-rich, but also makes life more cruel and difficult for everyone else.
This is practically becoming my mantra: Provide specific examples or STFU.
If you include all the business taxes rolled into the prices of all the goods and services we purchase with our AFTER tax dollars, we are getting so screwed.
I see the US as a “smarter” version of the old USSR. You don’t have to “disappear” people or send people to Gulags to keep everyone in check. Just ensure they have enough to lose and they’ll stay in line. Heck, even let them video record cops acting badly. In the end it will only strike more fear in the population.
There is a reason the country seems to have gone mad politically. And when I see the attitude of the left regarding trump’s candidacy before the election, and after his win, I’m honestly entertaining the idea that the fix was in, but God intervened.
Though Marshall was one of the original DeepStaters, he did manage to get the above right.
Every one of those professional thieves can rot in hell.
Meeting the bean counter soon for the usual pain and insults aka taxes.
IF Congress were jailed for vote buying, we’d find fewer gov’t giveaways.
What a crock. The “services” that he mentions likely don’t even receive half of the funds that are extracted from us, due to bureaucratic largess and payoffs.
After writing a check to the IRS, I quite disagree with the author of this piece. There is nothing preventing him from voluntarily paying more taxes.
100% really wouldn’t be enough for gov-co.
[We could all pay more, and in return get more from government than we’re getting now.]
Latest DEMOCRAT talking point for the 2018 and 2020 elections. Hoping Millennials, Dreamers, Welfare recipients, and illegal voters will go for it.
I just sent a check for $40K to the IRS. I think I pay enough. And yes, it is inordinately complicated but lawyers and accountants need the work.
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