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It's said that if we had to write one big check for all the taxes we pay(and that our employers pay in order to employ us that we never even see) there would be a revolt.
Federal Income Tax
State Income Tax
Local (County) Income Tax
Property and Real Estate Taxes
Personal Property Tax
Sales Tax
Gasoline Tax
Other energy Taxes
Utility Taxes
Tolls and Fees
Social Security
Medicare
If many add all these up they are paying 50% or more of their income in TAXES. That's indentured servitude.
- Food prices are low because billions of dollars in subsidies by the government.
-Clothes is cheap because of political and financial pressures to pay dirt to millions of workers in sweatshops around the world..
- The corrupt healthcare system is heavily subsidied by the government.
The reality is that when people pay taxes they are also paying for food, clothes, medicine, etc. This round about way allows for more stable markets at higher price. The so called 'capitalist' and 'free' market system people advocate is a lie: the American version.
What I pay + my employer pays for health insurance alone is more than all taxes, EASILY.
I dont buy it.
I agree with this.
Most of you don't have any idea about how much your employer pays for your healthcare - hint it is usually double to quadruple what you pay on a monthly basis. ETA: I checked my 2018 healthcare payments from December 2018 and saw that my employer paid nearly $13,000 for my health benefits for me versus my $4000.
I pay about $5000 a year for healthcare, which is about the same amount I pay in federal (including Medicare - I don't pay into SS anymore - I have a pension and I pay a larger amount into it, which I self direct, than I do total for all taxes combined on an annual basis), state, city, and property taxes in a given year. In Ohio we are not taxed on food. Not sure how much I pay in gas taxes but I moved back to my hometown primarily because of short commute times. I also work from home a couple times a week and only fill up my gas tank about once a month now.
We do pay about $800 a year for the property taxes for the house we live in. Our rental properties, we get a credit back for those property taxes so I don't really count them since we now get a pretty large "tax refund" based on our property tax payments on rental properties.
Most of you don't have any idea about how much your employer pays for your healthcare - hint it is usually double to quadruple what you pay on a monthly basis. ETA: I checked my 2018 healthcare payments from December 2018 and saw that my employer paid nearly $13,000 for my health benefits for me versus my $4000.
I pay about $5000 a year for healthcare, which is about the same amount I pay in federal (including Medicare - I don't pay into SS anymore - I have a pension and I pay a larger amount into it, which I self direct, than I do total for all taxes combined on an annual basis), state, city, and property taxes in a given year. In Ohio we are not taxed on food. Not sure how much I pay in gas taxes but I moved back to my hometown primarily because of short commute times. I also work from home a couple times a week and only fill up my gas tank about once a month now.
We do pay about $800 a year for the property taxes for the house we live in. Our rental properties, we get a credit back for those property taxes so I don't really count them since we now get a pretty large "tax refund" based on our property tax payments on rental properties.
I don't have an employer. I pay for my own health care. And it's high because of those employers agreeing to be middlemen (in a long line of middlemen) for the State-corporation health care conglomerate.
What I pay + my employer pays for health insurance alone is more than all taxes, EASILY.
I dont buy it.
Your health care is a tax.
That's what you folks don't understand.
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