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This 'taxes' my brain

PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2002 in General Discussion
Have y'all ever stopped to think just how much of what you earn go to taxes of one form or 'nother.OK, yer Blue Collar Joe that gets a check every week. That check will show a gross and a net. The difference being Fed and State income taxes, SS taxed, Medicare, etc. Now, Joe take's what's left and cashes it at the bank. A stop for a fillup, fuel taxes are about a 1/3 of the price per gallon. Joe still hasn't be able to kick the habit, 25-30 percent of the cost of a pack of smokes is taxes. Now the wife wants to go shopping, oop's here comes sales tax probably 5-12 % depending on where you are. Oh yea, that car he put gas in has to have a tag, yep that a form of tax as is the drivers license in his wallet. Think old Joe owns property - let him not pay his property taxes and he'll find out who really owns it. If he goes on vacation and stays in a motel they have a lodging tax. If he want's to hunt or fish, well, you know, licenses are taxes. Go to a theater or show, entertainment taxes. Want to build a shed for yer junk, got to have a building permit, aka Tax. Use electricity, natural or lp gas, a telephone - check the bill, yup they is some taxes there too.Yes indeed, this truely is the "Land of the FEE and the Home of the Brave".Thanks for letting me get this off my chest.How bout y'all addin' to the list?Pel
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  • smokinggunsmokinggun Member Posts: 590 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Toll Roads!!!! I can't figure out why people (including me) get on a highway that is supposed to save time and wait in bumper to bumper traffic to do what? Pay a tax!smokinggun the overtaxed
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  • smokinggunsmokinggun Member Posts: 590 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    P.S. Ever heard this saying? - "my takehome pay won't take me home"
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  • Bushy ARBushy AR Member Posts: 564 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't have the exact figures but you can look it up.About 25 years ago,more than half of our tax dollars went to defence.Now more than half go to entitlement programs.Before you jump the gun and say it is mainly Welfare,various retirement benefits are included in it also.That includes military and political retirees.So,if you draw a check that says "U.S. Treasury",you are being supported by taxpayers. I am not relying on Social Security to be there when I retire.If it is,great,if not,oh well.
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of my coworkers built a new house in the next town over. His total property taxes come to $6,000.00 a year!! That's not taxes that's RENT!! I thought mine were bad at just over $1800.00 a year. I'm still looking for a cheaper state to move to. WOODS
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    500 bucks per month for the privilege of living in the house you own? The house that you had to work two jobs and sweat blood in order to save the down payment? The house that you have to keep grinding away 52 weeks a year at a job you hate, just to make the mortgage payment? YOUR house?? Hardly!!Miss one of those 1500-dollar quarterly property tax payments and you'll find out real quick whose house it is.
    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.[This message has been edited by Lowrider (edited 03-17-2002).]
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  • niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saxonpig, I heard the same. It's about May-June when we're done paying. Isn't over taxation and poor management what caused the fall of the Mighty Roman Empire? Isn't it the same thing that brought about the american revolution? If I remmeber right, the colonists were taxed LESS than we are now (relative of course) and that incited a revolution. Interesting though... that you NEVER hear a news report or story about people feeling overtaxed... Might upset the masses...
    NIKLASAL@hotmail.com
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    it's getting to the point where you would be able to live better off of what the government takes rather than your take home pay.Don't forget to pay your yearly rent to the state and local government for that home you broke your back for all these years or they will come and evict you-you own no home!
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  • PelicanPelican Member Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK, don't forget school taxes. Ya know, you get to pay them whether you have a kid in school or not. Want to start a business, oop's, got to have a business license, and it's not a one time fee either. Heaven forbid your business is successful and you want to go public, it's corporate tax city. And the ultimate thumb to the nose - you are extremely successful. Even after being taxed to extreme you manage to amass a fortune. Then you die, RIGHT, you still get taxed on your estate.
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  • adminadmin Member, Administrator Posts: 1,079 admin
    edited November -1
    The problem is compounded when you consider that there are import tarriffs on the raw oil. Then property taxes on the refineries. Then corporate income tax on the refineries and the oil companies. Road taxes for the trucks that haul the refined gasoline. Property tax and income tax paid by the gas station. More taxes are paid by every supplier along the way.Employement taxes are everywhere. You know how you pay 7.5% to social security? Well your employer pays another 7.5% on top of that.The government takes in trillions of dollars and we really don't seem to get much in return.
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  • DarkStar11DarkStar11 Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And when you want to have a drink or two to help forget about all those dang taxes . . . don't even think about it, just pour. Of course, those states that slap a tax stamp across the cap of your liquor might make it hard for you to forget.
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