Posted on 04/01/2009 7:19:22 AM PDT by EagleUSA
Behold, America: the taxman cometh.
Even as taxpayers are struggling to make ends meet in a crumbling, tumbling economy, your friendly neighborhood (and state and federal) government is having a hard time making do with the meager trillions you're throwing its way, so it's relying on an old maxim:
If it exists, it can be taxed.
New York's resident grinch, Gov. David Paterson, tried suggesting a kind of omnibus fun-busting budget that would have taxed New Yorkers for skiing, golfing, camping, being fat, being skinny, going to the movies, going to plays, wearing clothing, going to strip clubs and having more than six fingers or toes. The governor, who is up for re-election next year, came to his senses about three weeks ago and renounced the budget, perhaps when an adviser noted that political contributions aren't tax-deductible.
Things haven't been all downhill for the taxman, though: some surprising new tariffs, like supersizing the tax on AIG bonuses, have had a measure of popular support, but most are being opposed hand and foot over wallet.
Cigarette taxes are jumping so much on April 1 that it will soon be cheaper to run a tobacco farm than to buy a pack of cigarettes. So as you stockpile your smokes for the coming decade, here's a look at some of the more egregious new taxes you'll be seeing soon.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
How about taxing taxes? I’m just sayin....
“Americans will also feel the bite of deep recession as an economy cannot stand both Obama’s socialism, throw-away spending and radical taxation.”
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Will they vote the talentless parastites out of office?
Will Conservatives/Republicans distance themselves enough from this insanity to give voters a clear choice?
Liberals are always crying about regressive taxes. Why aren’t they just as outraged? Oh, because these taxes are financing their power grab..... Never mind.
Government does not manufacture anything. Almost 100% of everything is manufactured by private enterprise. Government just taxes the hell out of the industry and when they cannot get enough they tax us individually. Dump about 1/2 of Government and we would just survive just great.
Monty Python had a skit in which people recommended new taxes. One man insisted that a tax be levied against “people who stand in water”. As the camera pulls back, we see that this man is standing in a small stream.
Tax the air that you breath.
Sorry, but you’re too late with the idea of taxing taxes. Here in California, and probably elsewhere, the state adds sales tax to excise tax on things such as gasoline.
My lease on this nice apartment I live in will be up for renewal in the fall. I will be looking for another much cheaper place to live throughout the summer because I cannot afford another rent increase at this place.
And if this cap and trade thing goes through, I can look forward to my utility bills, gasoline and food costs skyrocketing. I will earn enough to exist and go back and forth to work.
Fox needs to fact check, the Bowie Knife was make in Washington, Arkansas by blacksmith James Black and was also known as the "Arkansas Toothpick."
What if we go to strip clubs naked?
Already been done. Remember LBJ’s 10% Vietnam war income tax surcharge?
If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval
June 12, 1816
If it exists, it can be taxed.
If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteen being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; But be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on ‘til the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering...and the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval
June 12, 1816
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Worth repeating — yes, Jefferson knew the dangers of the excessive taxation that they escaped from the tyranny of the King of England. What goes around, comes around.
We now have our King of England. A bunch of them, actually.
Since we exhale co2, it appears they have that one covered also.
Already doing some of this, The difference between Atlanta and some of the outlying suburbs is $.10 less per gallon. Guess where, I get gas?
They wanted to tax food more in this state, but I think it got shot down as a tax on the poor. DUH!
They wanted to tax food more in this state, but I think it got shot down as a tax on the poor. DUH!
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Actually it is a tax on EVERYBODY...but only the poor matter to America-hating socialists.
Europe gave the world every ism and all have faild=see OBAMA.
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