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And I don't think they are being used correctly...
katevalentine

7 responses // Taxes are annoying.

  • Everybody throughout time has complained of their taxes. I do sympathize with you as somebody who was taxed for many decades, but I fear this will not change. Nowadays I see some people getting $5000 per kid and that's $2.40 per hour if that were a fulltime job. With 2 kids and you're closing in on that magical $5.15 per hour number. Not to begrudge those with kids, but these amounts are huge compared to what people are bringing home on the low end of the scale. It almost seems somebody is paying women to have kids.
    Anyway, sorry for the tangent, but taxes and death won't change and to get fairness in taxation has been a long historical goal that never seems attainable. Somebody always has a good gripe and it may very well be justified. Just don't hold your breath on that happening in your lifetime.
    FREEWILL
  • you benefit from your taxes everyday when you drive on a road, or visit a park or get your garbage collected. You benefit from the fire department and the police department, etc...

    Who doesn't wish money grew on trees? It doesn't so grow up.
    shrews
  • You are definitely correct about your being hit harder by taxes. It may seem unfair that you may be taxed 20%, which means that you keep $80 of every $100, and someone else is taxed at 30%, which means they get to keep $70. But you're making only $2,000/month, and the other person is making $100,000. You get to keep a total of $1,500, and the other person keeps $70,000. Does the other guy work 50 times harder? Probably not. Is he 50 times as smart as you? Probably not. He's just landed in the right place at the right time or he's got some inside information you don't.

    Taxes need to be more equitable -- as do salaries.

    And, yes, tax money is going to all kinds of things that are unwise. Unilaterally invading countries that are no danger to us, for example. Or subsidizing farmers who are corporations that don't need subsidizing. The list goes on and on.

    Taxes are necessary. They need to be equitable. And we need more control over where they get spent. That is going to require getting politicians out of the pockets of the military-industrial complex and greedy corporations. Support campaign finance reform.
    elcomputo
  • Thank you for saying something that stupid. First of all, you don't pay that much in taxes. I live in france, and let me tell you : we know what it is to pay taxes, and to pay for other persons than you.

    This might sound incredible but you actually see your taxes everyday. When workers are redoing the streets you drive in, that's with your money, when someby is trying to kill you, police is paid by your taxes.

    But to be perfectly fait with you, it's true that in the US , you don't have as many services provided by the state as we do : such as free school, high schools, (nearly) free universities, universal health care.

    But seriously, do you think your taxes are useless ???
    Axx182
  • I think Kate me be a little naive and uninformed. But lets not jump all over her. She is young and doesn't seem completed versed on the issue. It would be worth knowing what she thinks are or are not worthy programs to put tax money into. Lets gets some specifics before we get too terse in our responses.

    Thanks
    jamesd
  • taxes pay for roads, airports, schools, library military protection, etc. if you did not pay taxes you'd pay tolls or fees or you wouldn't have these items at all. you maintain your car, out gas in it and buy food. taxes pay for the common items needed for a country and community to survive and thrive.
    minerniner
  • Beauty, and brains to match.
    cyborg527

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