Posted on 04/16/2009 4:16:17 AM PDT by nametrader
If people need any more concrete explanation of this, start with the staff of life, a loaf of bread. The simplest thing; the poorest man must have it. Well, there are 151 taxes now in the price of a loaf of bread it accounts for more than half the cost of a loaf of bread. It begins with the first tax, on the farmer that raised the wheat. Any simpleton can understand that if that farmer cannot get enough money for his wheat, to pay the property tax on his farm, he cant be a farmer. He loses his farm. And so it is with the fellow who pays a drivers license and a gasoline tax to drive the truckload of wheat to the mill, the miller who has to pay everything from social security tax, business license, everything else. He has to make his living over and above those costs. So they all wind up in that loaf of bread. Now an egg isnt far behind and nobody had to make that. Theres a hundred taxes in an egg by the time it gets to market and you know the chicken didnt put them there!
it = is, more coffee...
I hope that you have taken proactive steps to ensure that you don't pay a penalty next tax year for what you acurately describe as zero's "faux tax cut".
The "tax cut is a smoke ' mirrors game. Nothing has been cut. The witholding tables have been tinkered with to take $13 less per week from everyone's check, but the tax rates for 2009 are unchanged. So, everyone who doesn't increase their witholding to offset the tax "cut" will be paying taxes on that $13/week next year.
A lot of taxpayers are in for a nasty shock next tax season.
True fact. One of the things that zero has brought to the center of our attention is that it's ok for Dems to not pay taxes, but God help any conservative who doesn't pay theirs . . . . . . . . . and 3 other people's!!!
(Idea for the next Tax Day Tea Party - How about conservatives NOT pay their taxes next year?? If it's ok for the Dems, aren't we entitiled to equal treatment??)
To help gain on the momentum of the Tea Party spirit and the Fair Tax, or just to check it out if you are curious, please check out my friend Marilyn Rickert’s website - http://www.fairtaxnation.com.
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