I mark Tax Freedom Day on my calendar each year (as soon as it’s calculated).
I recommend it.
“Americans will spend more on federal, state, and local taxes than on food, clothing, and housing combined this year. While Americans will spend about $5.1 trillion on taxes in 2017, they will spend just over $4 trillion on these household items.”
Our Thanksgiving is earlier but our ‘tax freedom day’ is in June/July…October if you count GST and don’t qualify for any gov’t ‘programs’ reserved for immigrants.
Hmmmmm- – – – – -do they still ship tea into Boston? Maybe it would be better if we just mob and loot all the Starbucks franchises in Washington DC this time around- – – – – -disguised as Somali “immigrants”!
It’s not how much they take but how much is stolen…30%?
Probably more in truth when you figure how much of “legitimate” expenditure is actually illegitimate. Let’s say 40% of what is taken should not be, meaning 40% should stay in our pockets. Don’t know about you but I could make good use of my10,000 or so in stolen funds myself.
Still and forever just a pipe dream, but Ronnie’s “tithe” plan not only looks good and would save actual working people a fortune but it would become much harder to abscond with it, depending on how it is collected and dispersed. Some will still pipe up with a “national sales tax” throwing the burden on small business which is already regulated almost into oblivion. That’s BS and in fact the individual state sales taxes could and should be rolled into that tithe, collected with the same but simplified method used now…who would not be HAPPY to see a flat 10% being deducted from earned income to support the nation and maybe bring back the Republic? And if there’s too many “programs” left unfunded at the end of that 10%? Then cut the programs but do NOT EVER increase the stipend.
And ultimately then it IS about how much they take; they take so much that these zillions can be squandered and swiped and still leave enough to (somewhat) run the country? THEN THEY ARE TAKING TOO MUCH!
There’s a quote I saw once (didn’t save it and can’t find it since, maybe that suggests it was bogus?) from one of those 18th century UK economists (like Locke) who wrote all the books that inspired our Founders… it said that under monarchic and feudalistic systems, the average tax paid by the working class ran around 10% of their proceeds.. and if the average tax under one of the new experimental forms of representative self-government they were proposing ever exceeded 10%, it should be deemed a failed experiment.
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I mark Tax Freedom Day on my calendar each year (as soon as it’s calculated).
I recommend it.
“Americans will spend more on federal, state, and local taxes than on food, clothing, and housing combined this year. While Americans will spend about $5.1 trillion on taxes in 2017, they will spend just over $4 trillion on these household items.”
https://www.ff.org/taxpayers-spend-113-days-working-to-pay-nations-tax-burden/
Our Thanksgiving is earlier but our ‘tax freedom day’ is in June/July…October if you count GST and don’t qualify for any gov’t ‘programs’ reserved for immigrants.
Hmmmmm- – – – – -do they still ship tea into Boston? Maybe it would be better if we just mob and loot all the Starbucks franchises in Washington DC this time around- – – – – -disguised as Somali “immigrants”!
Careful! Ya really want a black face mugshot immortalized on the internet like Trudeau and Kimmel?
“When in the course of human events….”
Didn’t we fight a war over taxation? A storm is a coming.
If the tax money spent on mercy programs actually went toward the intended recipients we could eliminate poverty in the civilized world.
The demons stealing our mercy funds need o be dealt with harshly.
“The poor you will have with you always” Matthew 26:11
Mainly because of the thieves.
John cracked me up:)
It’s not how much they take but how much is stolen…30%?
Probably more in truth when you figure how much of “legitimate” expenditure is actually illegitimate. Let’s say 40% of what is taken should not be, meaning 40% should stay in our pockets. Don’t know about you but I could make good use of my10,000 or so in stolen funds myself.
Still and forever just a pipe dream, but Ronnie’s “tithe” plan not only looks good and would save actual working people a fortune but it would become much harder to abscond with it, depending on how it is collected and dispersed. Some will still pipe up with a “national sales tax” throwing the burden on small business which is already regulated almost into oblivion. That’s BS and in fact the individual state sales taxes could and should be rolled into that tithe, collected with the same but simplified method used now…who would not be HAPPY to see a flat 10% being deducted from earned income to support the nation and maybe bring back the Republic? And if there’s too many “programs” left unfunded at the end of that 10%? Then cut the programs but do NOT EVER increase the stipend.
And ultimately then it IS about how much they take; they take so much that these zillions can be squandered and swiped and still leave enough to (somewhat) run the country? THEN THEY ARE TAKING TOO MUCH!
There’s a quote I saw once (didn’t save it and can’t find it since, maybe that suggests it was bogus?) from one of those 18th century UK economists (like Locke) who wrote all the books that inspired our Founders… it said that under monarchic and feudalistic systems, the average tax paid by the working class ran around 10% of their proceeds.. and if the average tax under one of the new experimental forms of representative self-government they were proposing ever exceeded 10%, it should be deemed a failed experiment.
122 days. Actually…
Minnesota just added the tax for the “family leave “ program $2.44 more out of my pocket
Here it comes…
BOHICA!