Isn't this amazing? TAXES: Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax Capital Gains Tax CDL license Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Court Fines (indirect taxes) Dog License Tax Federal Income Tax Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel permit tax Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon) Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Interest expense (tax on the money) Inventory tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax) IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Local Income Tax Luxury Taxes Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Septic Permit Tax Service Charge Taxes Social Security Tax Road Usage Taxes (Truckers) Sales Taxes Recreational Vehicle Tax Road Toll Booth Taxes School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone federal excise tax Telephone federal universal service fee tax Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax Telephone state and local tax Telephone usage charge tax Toll Bridge Taxes Toll Tunnel Taxes Traffic Fines (indirect taxation) Trailer Registration Tax Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax 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. What the hell happened???
Tecnically, Worker's Comp is not a tax but a mandatory insurance. And how can you forget my favorite adjunct to Sales tax, the "Use Tax" - a home state tax on anything purchased out of state that had it been purchased within the home state would have been subject to sales tax.
You forgot Machine Gun Tax and, in TN, they charge me sales tax when I buy a Gold Coin that is Legal Tender. Like a tax on a money itself
And do you think that Coproprations pay their taxes out of pocket and don't pass them on to you? It's estimated that over half of the price you pay for a product is the Corporate taxes incurred along the way. BTW, The Dollar is currently only worth around $.04... and a pre-1988 penny is worth about 1.3 cents right now...
It was just the quickest place to quote it....didn't mean it was you ghrit.... everyone at work already discussing taxes and meeting with their CPA's...because they are all independent realtors, they choose quarterly and not to mention all the stinkin' money they make...ONE commission check last month? One check , from one sale?? Over a hundred grand.... I'm in the wrong end of this business.....
Someone has to pay for all the invalids on welfare....might as well be the oppressive white man like me.
"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. What the hell happened " Well, ya got different things going on here.....not all to do with taxes ( and PLEASE don't think me in favor of ANY tax...it's all organized theft in my book ) In the case of taxes, in the War of Nothern Aggression, the North won. The war was about taxes. The North wanted to keep on taxing the South to pay for infastructure in the North ( like roads, canels, rail lines, etc ). Unfortunately for ALL of us, BIGGER GOVT was the result, and govt never met a tax it didn't like. As to the National Debt....yeah we did have one 100 years ago.....no where NEAR what we have now, but it was there. Go here if you want to see it for any particular year: http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm As to Mom staying home.....well, 100 years ago, things were a LOT less consumer oriented....."home" was most likely a 500 sqft structure on average, with no electric, and maybe not an inside bathroom. Transport was the family horse and maybe a buggie if you were upper middle class, not 50-75k worth of machinery you see in most middle class driveways today...there were no electronic goodies, vacations, or college tuitions. So, Mom didn't need to work to keep up with the Jones, because the Jones couldn't buy any million things we find to waste our money on today........so Mom doesn't have to work today either, as long as the family is willing to live closer to what the family did 100 years ago.
You have a decent enouph point but would have to qualify it by saying it dose depend some on how good of a job dad has if mom can stay home now, unless of coarse they make use of all those taxes the gov collects to redistribute as welfare. We do live a LOT closer to what most folks did 100 yaers ago than most any other than maybe amish folks but it still takes 2 incomes (with both of them being low ) to just make the land payments and keep lights and the roof and so on.