Can anyone calculate how much in taxes we pay?
Serious question! To start with we have Federal, State & Local taxes automatically withheld from our paychecks. Add to this Medicare. Then we have taxes on everything we buy, on our utilities, taxes on our estates when we die & too many more I can't think of at the moment. What happened to freedom from excessive taxation? True, taxes are necessary to some degree but what really are we getting into in the future? Something has to change sometime soon! When are we going to make our representatives accountable for the mess everyone is in? Rambling thoughts from a 43 year old man paying out the wazoooooo!!!!!
Public Comments
- The average American worker pays 60% of their income in various taxes. That is federal income, FICA SSI state income, city, county, personal property, school, sales, plus all the hidden taxes you don't think about. Corporations pay no taxes they just collect it from consumers and pass it on so all the corporate taxes transportation taxes, raw material taxes are just added to the price of what you buy. Go fair tax.org we really need to get rid of this mess.
- The taxes we pay are high but I bet you use the services they provide and would complain if the government stopped providing some service you frequently use. For me I would be happy to cut the services you use, just don't cut the ones that I use. That is how we got to this level of taxation.
