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Stop Putting So Much Tax Burden on Single People!!
If you had stopped after the first six words of that title, you would have had a topic worth discussing.
Americans pay on average nearly 50% of their incomes in taxes: Federal, state, and local. And that doesn't count the resources they must expend to obey every law from handrails to new light bulbs to higher car prices due to pollution controls and twelve automatic airbags, to health care forms their doctor and employer must pay someone to fill out, etc.
As long as you have a tax burden that big overall, it is far more important than which person you put a little more on or a little less on. The size of the tax burden is the problem, not whether I managed to avoid paying this particular piece of it even while the next guy managed to duck another piece of it (thus putting that piece on me).
I don't disagree with the OP. I thought the single rate was too high when I was single and I still think that when married. In fact, I was stunned at the difference between the two when we filed this year. I knew the tax breaks cut to married people (even with no kids) could be a lot but I knowing and seeing are two different things.
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Originally Posted by Edmund_Burke
Americans pay some of the highest taxes in the world. I don't care about Europe, we are not Europe.
No, we don't. You can't say we pay some of the highest in the world then turn around and say oh but I'm not including this entire section even though they are part of the world. Our tax rate puts us at roughly the middle of the pack when put against the world.
Anyone complaining about taxes, remember when you supported raising taxes on the other guy yet you could not see it would effect you. You were so happy to hurt someone else and now your evilness is biting your asses. You were told, you were warned not to believe Obama, yet you believed all of Obama's propaganda. By the way, Obama is not done yet, you give him the power to hurt you. I do not have an ounce of sympathy for Obama supporters.
Anyone complaining about taxes, remember when you were all about raising taxes yet you could not see it would effect you. You were so happy to hurt someone else and now your evilness is biting your asses. You were told, you were warned not to believe Obama, yet you believed all of Obama's propaganda. By the way, Obama is not done yet, you give him the power to hurt you. I do not have an ounce of sympathy for Obama supporters.
That's what liberals always say when they're working on a scheme to raise Other People's Taxes (meaning your taxes) yet again.
BTW, that chart says it "represents all tax returns" etc.. Does it include the people whose incomes are low enough that they don't fill out Income Tax Return forms at all?
Stop Putting So Much Tax Burden on Single People!!
If you had stopped after the first six words of that title, you would have had a topic worth discussing.
Americans pay on average nearly 50% of their incomes in taxes: Federal, state, and local. And that doesn't count the resources they must expend to obey every law from handrails to new light bulbs to higher car prices due to pollution controls and twelve automatic airbags, to health care forms their doctor and employer must pay someone to fill out, etc.
As long as you have a tax burden that big overall, it is far more important than which person you put a little more on or a little less on. The size of the tax burden is the problem, not whether I managed to avoid paying this particular piece of it even while the next guy managed to duck another piece of it (thus putting that piece on me).
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