Who said it was okay for lawmakers to pillage our paychecks with impunity? What precisely are we getting in return? And why are we paying all these taxes in the first place?
The government has also gotten very good at implementing new stealth taxes. Consumers pay for Obamacare through taxes layered through the health care system as well as on insurance premiums. You pay for "Lifeline" cell and internet service through your phone bill. Add to that, the woke subsidies you are forced to pay to private companies. Both Amazon Prime and Walmart+ provide deeply discounted memberships to those on government assistance. If you pay full price, that subsidy is coming out of your hide.
I remember when Reagan was President how happy I was to get an extra $24 in my net pay as a result of his tax cuts. Several years before that I remember telling my supervisor that I would not be able to work any more overtime above three hours because it threw me into the next tax bracket and I had less money in my net take home pay.
We can thank our American dictators, Lincoln and FDR, for the reality that our Constitution has become less relevant than toilet paper.
The government has also gotten very good at implementing new stealth taxes. Consumers pay for Obamacare through taxes layered through the health care system as well as on insurance premiums. You pay for "Lifeline" cell and internet service through your phone bill. Add to that, the woke subsidies you are forced to pay to private companies. Both Amazon Prime and Walmart+ provide deeply discounted memberships to those on government assistance. If you pay full price, that subsidy is coming out of your hide.
The purpose of government is to provide a comfortable lifetime income to its employees.
I remember when Reagan was President how happy I was to get an extra $24 in my net pay as a result of his tax cuts. Several years before that I remember telling my supervisor that I would not be able to work any more overtime above three hours because it threw me into the next tax bracket and I had less money in my net take home pay.