[G Larry]

In 2011:
Federal - 39.6%
State - 5%
SSI & Medicare 7.6%
Sales Tax - 6%
Gas - 50 cents/gal
Property - $3100

That’s somewhere North of 65% paid out to gov’t!

[aruanan]

In 2011:
Federal - 39.6%
State - 5%
SSI & Medicare 7.6%
Sales Tax - 6%
Gas - 50 cents/gal
Property - $3100

That’s somewhere North of 65% paid out to gov’t!

And a slave of the antebellum South had a lifetime expropriation of his production by his slaveowner of about 10%.