How is this not higher voted....
To pay $35k in tax you were single earning about $170k. So no, you don't get the stimulus.
To get the full stimulus, you paid about $18k in tax
It's RENT. Taxes are rent for being American. No one took it from you.
No, it's not 'your' money since it's already allocated when you took a job in the US.
You get to vote on the people who aportion it. Taxes are not a black hole, or theft.
Just - it's so annoying that we have these other people who live here with all of the awesome benefits of being American and yet act like its some illegal imposition when it's not 100% comfort and fun for them, or when every benefit is not for them personally today.
You are a good little subject. Kneeling before the crown, defending the honor of our benevolent rulers.
Tell me, what is the consequence of not paying income taxes? And what is the consequence of refusing a thief?
It is not rent. No entity has the right to impose rent for existing, and no entity can charge anything without a negotiation or informed agreement.
The look at the actual "contract" that binds the United States. It acknowledges the necessity of some of the theivery, but only by very specific means and for very specific purposes. Interstate commerce, domestic law, foreign relations, and little else.
Not to allow a fascist state to take over healthcare. Not to subsidize Europe. Not so officer Brown can kill your dog in a red flag action instigated by a bitter neighbor. And not to have libraries worth of bureaucratic red tape dragging down medicine testing during a pandemic.
I’m not sure I can call it rent, but taxes are essential and they pay for things we all use.
I suspect you drive on the roads. And benefit from being in a society with people who are at least minimally educated. Our taxes pay for CDC, a crucial organization in this pandemic. And supporting infrastructure in other countries is actually beneficial to us.
You like to call people to the mat and insult them for regurgitating this or that, but you do the same. You talk about how everything you disagree with is dumb and then when someone calls you out, you throw in some misdirection, more insults or just plain ignore it.
I'm picking a fight with income tax. Not property tax, or sales tax, or actual value and service taxes.
But since you mentioned it, roads fall under interstate commerce, but the contracts need to stop milking Uncle Sam and the American People by giving them to the official's friends.
Schools are paid by local and property taxes, they'r not meant to be the Federal Government's purview.
The bloated bureaucracy of the CDC and the pay to play model of the FDA hurt America's response until the Executive told them to back off.
And the era of subsidizing Europe's welfare states and trying to nation build in the Mid East died with the USSR. If anything, we should be transitioning to a Pacific and Asia/India centric foreign policy. See how Germany does cradle to grave to welfare when they need to actually have a half-decent army.
I'm not without suggestions and solution ideas.
I’m with you, in that I largely disagree with the way our taxes are spent (but I doubt we disagree on the same points). And while income taxes don’t support those things entirely, they are a part of it.
And don’t get me wrong, I’m not in love with the taxes, especially not the way they are used. But I do believe that taxes are necessary.
Some taxes are, unfortunately, necessary. But tightening Uncle Sam's pursestrings will force them to cut the pork, bureaucratic fat, and prioritize their actual duties.
To pay $35k in tax you were single earning about $170k. So no, you don't get the stimulus.
To get the full stimulus, you paid about $18k in tax
Except for maybe... never having it taken.
No, it's not 'your' money since it's already allocated when you took a job in the US.
You get to vote on the people who aportion it. Taxes are not a black hole, or theft.
Just - it's so annoying that we have these other people who live here with all of the awesome benefits of being American and yet act like its some illegal imposition when it's not 100% comfort and fun for them, or when every benefit is not for them personally today.
Tell me, what is the consequence of not paying income taxes? And what is the consequence of refusing a thief?
It is not rent. No entity has the right to impose rent for existing, and no entity can charge anything without a negotiation or informed agreement.
The look at the actual "contract" that binds the United States. It acknowledges the necessity of some of the theivery, but only by very specific means and for very specific purposes. Interstate commerce, domestic law, foreign relations, and little else.
Not to allow a fascist state to take over healthcare. Not to subsidize Europe. Not so officer Brown can kill your dog in a red flag action instigated by a bitter neighbor. And not to have libraries worth of bureaucratic red tape dragging down medicine testing during a pandemic.
I suspect you drive on the roads. And benefit from being in a society with people who are at least minimally educated. Our taxes pay for CDC, a crucial organization in this pandemic. And supporting infrastructure in other countries is actually beneficial to us.
You like to call people to the mat and insult them for regurgitating this or that, but you do the same. You talk about how everything you disagree with is dumb and then when someone calls you out, you throw in some misdirection, more insults or just plain ignore it.
But since you mentioned it, roads fall under interstate commerce, but the contracts need to stop milking Uncle Sam and the American People by giving them to the official's friends.
Schools are paid by local and property taxes, they'r not meant to be the Federal Government's purview.
The bloated bureaucracy of the CDC and the pay to play model of the FDA hurt America's response until the Executive told them to back off.
And the era of subsidizing Europe's welfare states and trying to nation build in the Mid East died with the USSR. If anything, we should be transitioning to a Pacific and Asia/India centric foreign policy. See how Germany does cradle to grave to welfare when they need to actually have a half-decent army.
I'm not without suggestions and solution ideas.
And don’t get me wrong, I’m not in love with the taxes, especially not the way they are used. But I do believe that taxes are necessary.