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What I'd like to know is WHEN AM I GOING TO GET REPARATIONS FOR MY ENSLAVEMENT?

Yep, that's right. I am tired of being a poor white sharecropper, perennially indentured to the various governments of this nation.

First I have to pay 15+% of every damn dollar I make to the massas at Soc.Sec/Medicare. Then I have to pay Fed 20+% income taxes on the rest, and get this, also on half the bleeping Social Security they already took from me.

Now the massas at the FedGov are not done with me yet. I have to pay taxes on all sorts of goods imported into the US that I might choose to purchase. But a dirty little secret is that I have to pay a portion of the taxes levied on businesses here in the US too. Now we here at FR know that a tax on business is in reality a tax on the consumers of the products of that business. But the Federal Government would have the masses believe that the dirty filthy steenking rich businesses ought to pay more taxes on their ill gotten gains. Hence, I am hit yet again for another little bit of my "crop". Then there are user fees for various things the Federal Gov. "does for me". Things I already helped pay for with the other taxes.

Now the massas at the StateGov want their cut too. They want their 7% of my "crop" due because my income was so great. But, they too have their user fees. Licenses, permits, that sort of thing.

The locals also want their cut. They want property taxes, and user fees, licenses and the rest.

Now I have a bit of my "crop" left. But my massas figure I'm living a bit to high on the hog. They want another 6% for anything I care to purchase as a sales tax. But hold on, it ain't 6% on everything. I can have my food "tax free", as long as I prepare it myself and if you don't include any of the taxes passed on to me from the producers, manufacturers, distributers, you get my drift. There is a way to make up for that loss of 6% on food. They take 20+% tax on the gasoline I use, 10-20% tax on lodging as I "grow my crop" in other locales, tolls for the roads, etc. etc.

Oh for the days when only one massa was reaching into my pocket.

First I have to pay 15+% of every damn dollar I make to the massas at Soc.Sec/Medicare

The recipients of Soc Sec and Medicare are another welfare class.

Yeah, and once the 'massas' get your money -- the result of your labor -- they give it to the 'poor' (is this a code word or what?) -- so who is slave to whom??? Who is working and who is sitting at home picking up a free check?