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No sales tax at all (local taxes still count as taxes)? So people who work part time have NO deductions either? What about utility taxes in some municipalities?
Okay, indirectly people help pay property taxes if they are renters...that doesn't count as well.
People pay taxes one form or another...unless you are a squatter who literally buys everything on the black market and is employed in the informal sector.
Your erstwhile tax dollars cease to be yours the moment you send a check to Uncle Sam. Your former dollars are no more than the money that you pay to a a condominium association, homeowner's association or dues to a club or organization. And while you will have some degree in how the groups money is spent, it ain't yours no more.
Taxes are like dues, paying them is the price of membership and for the goods and services they provide. If you don't what the club, condo, homeowners association spends money on, then vote for new directors, if that doesn't work and you don't like the decisions of the club, quit. If you don't like the condo association, move. But forget about the idea that money paid in is your money. It ain't.
This rant paid for with my money.
You're right, of course. And the real solution is to severely limit how much the government can tax us.
Any of my money taken by the government in taxes is just as certainly not my money any more than money I pay for monopoly priced gasoline. At least I have some miniscule say in how much the government charges for my citizenship. I have absolutely no say in how much the oil suppliers charge.
Maybe we could limit how much the petroleum theives could charge us?
Any of my money taken by the government in taxes is just as certainly not my money any more than money I pay for monopoly priced gasoline. At least I have some miniscule say in how much the government charges for my citizenship. I have absolutely no say in how much the oil suppliers charge.
Maybe we could limit how much the petroleum theives could charge us?
Your erstwhile tax dollars cease to be yours the moment you send a check to Uncle Sam. Your former dollars are no more than the money that you pay to a a condominium association, homeowner's association or dues to a club or organization. And while you will have some degree in how the groups money is spent, it ain't yours no more.
You have a choice when you join a club/association to live/play elsewhere. You can look at what the club/associatiobn does with the money and decide not to belong to the membership. You can't do that with federal taxes. Although unrelated, I'm thinking you can't do it with union dues, either.
Driller1
You know your argument to “just not buy” is absurd. There is a minimum amount of oil I have to buy to get to work and other fuel purchases are factored into everything we buy. My bus fare has gone up to $80 per week because of fuel prices. How has your business been effected by the price of oil your rigs burn? Have you been stuck with a low bid based on last December’s oil price? If not you are very fortunate.
You have a choice when you join a club/association to live/play elsewhere. You can look at what the club/associatiobn does with the money and decide not to belong to the membership. You can't do that with federal taxes. Although unrelated, I'm thinking you can't do it with union dues, either.
Union dues are deductible...
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