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If you cannot understand that a tax on a business is a tax on you, I cannot help you.

I never denied that revenue for government was a necessity, nor did I say I supported an income tax, nor did I say income tax was moral.

Sales taxes are equally as burdensome. The ACA tax on medical devices and services to pay for medical devices and services is inane. Every year, the fire services are after us for another tax of some sort or another and everyone jumps on board because we are in a fire-prone area.

Yes, no one can survive without a wage, but payroll taxes are also a sort of tax on a wage. People think of them as a tax on business but, if my employer has to pay additional taxes on me, or a share of a “contribution,” it means that I must produce value far in excess of my wage. Put another way, if I make $15 an hour, not only must I produce in excess of $15 to justify my employment, I must now produce value to include the taxes and insurances and other mandates imposed on the business. I pay for that in the form of a lower wage and higher prices for goods and services. Like an income tax, there is no escape.

My point is, either way, we pay. Yes, I detest the income tax and most other taxes. Yes, I understand the necessity of taxes. Yes, I understand the merry go round that the current system is. Yes, I appreciate your civility in this matter.

You may like this; I was once audited. The agent was going to include my housing as income. My work requires I live on site and the IRS has an exemption for this. If they didn’t, service members, prisoners, children, could be taxed for the value of the place in which they reside. Arbitrarily, the agent said I was receiving a $2000 a month value, bumping my income by $24K a year and back taxing me from the start of my employment. Even without the back taxes, It would have required me to take another job to pay the taxes which, of course, I would have had to pay taxes on. When I asked if I was correct, the agent seemed please I understood the situation.