Taxes

[M4Jess]

>What the !!!!!
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>Taxes
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>Accounts Receivable Tax
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>Building Permit Tax
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>Capital Gains Tax
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>Cigarette Tax
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>Corporate Income Tax
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>Dog License Tax
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>Federal Income Tax
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>Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
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>Fishing License Tax
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>Food License Tax
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>Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
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>Hunting License Tax
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>Inheritance Tax Interest expense (tax on the money)
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>Inventory tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
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>IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
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>Liquor Tax
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>Local Income Tax
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>Luxury Taxes
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>Medicare Tax
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>Property Tax
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>Real Estate Tax
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>Septic Permit Tax
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>Social Security Tax
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>Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)
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>Sales Taxes
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>Recreational Vehicle Tax
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>Road Toll Booth Taxes
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>School Tax
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>State Income Tax
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>State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
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>Telephone federal excise tax
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>Telephone federal universal service fee tax
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>Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes
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>Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax
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>Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax
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>Telephone state and local tax
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>Telephone usage charge tax
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>Toll Bridge Taxes
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>Toll Tunnel Taxes
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>Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)
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>Trailer registration tax
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>Utility Taxes
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>Vehicle License Registration Tax
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>Vehicle Sales Tax
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>Watercraft registration Tax
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>Well Permit Tax
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>Workers Compensation Tax
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>COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago
>and our nation was the most prosperous
>in the world, had absolutely no national debt, had the
>largest middle class in the world and
>Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
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>What the hell happened?

[Major_Johnson]

It all started going downhill when they gave women the right to vote and allowed them to smoke in public!!!
<boy am I asking for it!!>

And no, I'm not married!!!

[VikingNo2]

Driving a large green vehical that blows up often tax LOL, sorry Jess couldn't resist :rolleyes:

[Belisarius]

"You's talkin' dirt 'bout Texas again? Ah'm gonna git ya."

[M4Jess]

<-----IRS guy

u talking to me?

[challenge]

The percentage of income spent on taxes today is nearly 20 times what it was when the colonies revolted against England.

[Orzel Bialy]

Corporate Greed and corrupt politics go hand in hand...it's the Anti-Robin Hood scheme.

[Bernie]

It all started going downhill when they gave women the right to vote and allowed them to smoke in public!!!
<boy am I asking for it!!>

And no, I'm not married!!!

Never will be either, at this rate.

[Belisarius]

The percentage of income spent on taxes today is nearly 20 times what it was when the colonies revolted against England.

Well, public schools, police, fire departments, hospitals etc etc etc weren't around when the colonies revolted against England, either. :rolleyes:

[challenge]

Yes they were, Bell. At least most of the things on your list were. Along with road building projects and other public works. Of course there weren't as many people using them, which ruduced the infrastructure overhead a lot, but historically many of those icons of modern civilization weren't what I would call -- effective.

The administrative overhead was lower as well. and the decentralized population also made it easier to perform such tasks on a local level. Town constabularyand fire brigades have been around before the fire of London (1666); Boston had a public school as early as 1635. Other examples of the items on your lists also exisit.

While I agree it costs a lot less to maintain a road used by horses and wagons than one used by automobiles and trucks, for example, administrative costs for the infrastructure always increase faster than the number of participants of a program. For example, a school with a single teacher really doesn't need much in the way of administration, but put in 10 teachers and increase the students and building maintenance, and the need to coordinate school activities, means increasing the cost per student for non-educational costs. Every government program carries a hugh administration cost for implimentation and oversight.

I think our programs are more inclusive and extensive than in the past, but that also increases the cost. As of now, the fastest growing budget item in the school systems around the country is administrative cost. The second fastest is testing -- but with the emphasis on standized testing that's understandable.

[Irinami]

As the Romans found out, government budget increases exponentially for each bureaucrat hired.