🇺🇸 Every American should be asking themselves this… 🇺🇸
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You forgot the yuge fuel tax that people just ignore. Registration, insurance, drivers licenses it never ends.
These are the big ones but once you go down the rabbit hole it never ends. We need a REVOLUTION 2.0
I've said this a hundred times and no one seems to listen. The problem with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
... isn't that it gave congress the power to tax, we needed that for the government to continue running, the problem is that it put NO limitations on its ability to tax.
Look at the bill of rights. Its a bill of negative rights. The government may not do XYZ to its citizens. We handed them a stack of blank checkbooks with no limit to how many they could write or how large the checks could be. They've been steadily raise both the number and size of the checks for decades with no one top stop them.
They conceal the massive drain on society and massive cost in dollars by spreading the taxes out as you've shown above. If all taxes were banned but one and the entire burden was place say on the income tax people would see they aren't paying 25% they're paying 70%. Then the jig would be up.
We a constitutional amendment... not to repeal the 16th but instead to limit it.
#1 The government can't tax the same money twice. Meaning you as a citizen can't earn a paycheck, pay taxes on it as income, and then also pay taxes on it as a sales tax then pay more taxes on it when you die and pass it on to your children. That's all the same money from the same paycheck.
#2 The government can't tax property or wealth. The idea that a person can own a piece of property 100% but the government can show up with a tax bill that if you don't pay it they can then take that property from you is insane. You might as well not even own the property at all... that's communism.
#3 The government should have a hard limit on the taxes it can collect. IE 35%. That's a full third or your money. Combined with #1 it will prevent them from simply stealing people's money like they do today. How you split that between local state and fed is a good question that is too complicated for here.
#4 All taxes should be equal for all citizens regardless of race, sex, income, wealth, etc, etc. You carve out specific exceptions like raising children but you make a point of limiting those in some way. The point is that taxing a billionaire at 30% but a person who makes 40k at 10% is inherently unfair. Of course the huddled masses will always vote for higher taxes on the rich guy. Then then get to see some of that money even if its just in the form of more government services. If the little guy had to also pay 5% extra in order to take 5% more from the rich guy then they would never vote for that. This one is way more complicated but VERY important.
#5 I think is the most important part. The money should be collected by the state and local government and then forwarded to the feds. The current system is that the feds collect it all up and dole it out to whichever state behaves the way the feds want. That has to stop. It giver the federal gov too much power.
I could go on and on and on... The 16th is the whole problem and it needs to be fixed. Not repealed. Fixed.
AND ADD THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO "BENEFIT TAXES" TO THOSE WHO DONT MAKE THAT MUCH IN WAGES YET GET THOUSANDS IN "TAX CREDITS" i.e. single mothers who work part time, with 5 kids, and get tax "refunds" in the thousands.
States take taxes directly, not through the fed, be they part of income tax, fuel taxes, some sales taxes though those may go through a county. I know I always can see the amounts of my paychecks that went directly to my state, and sometimes I get a smaller tax refund directly from the state, though this last year I ended up paying them like $200 by the end of everything. So many taxes and dollars go straight to the state, and don't have to go through the feds at all.
I could not agree more with your post!
Damn straight we do, I am done with this bullshit.
This country was started with The Boston Tea Party due to taxation of their tea. We need to have a Revolution 2.0.
All this bloat could fund UBI many times over. Probably for the whole world.
I don't mind paying a fee for a boating license, or pilot's license, or driver's license. Those require skills and aptitude to safely operate. And we continually see what happens when people don't have the aptitude or don't use the skills they have when operating heavy machinery.
What I have a problem with is paying the taxes, fees, etc on everything else, ESPECIALLY to hunt, fish, or grow your own freaking food. We don't have a fucking king, so it shouldn't be illegal to hunt or fish without a license, especially when it's on private property. Nor should we continually have to pay taxes on said private property, purchases, etc.
And I'd be ok with paying a flat rate income tax if it were legally presented to The People for a vote By THE PEOPLE. THAT'S where we all went wrong. Creating a Representative Govt is fine. It's when you then give up ALL of your liberties and freedom to said representatives hoping they'll exercise that responsibility honestly while faithfully adhering to the Constitution. Literally EVERYTHING in the U.S. Code is bureaucratic bunk that wasn't voted on BY THE PEOPLE. Nor were any of the Constitutional Amendments. Here in FL, those require a passing vote BY THE PEOPLE, or it doesn't fly.
When we do finally get around to remaking a new govt, THIS HAS TO BE WRITTEN INTO THE CONSTITUTION. We can have a representative govt for us for day to day ops and to come up with the rules and laws, but WE, THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THE ABSOLUTE LAST SAY in whether they get passed. And not no simple majority 50.5-51% bullshit, either. 2/3 majority, no less.
Yes...the "representatives" don't represent we the people...the majority represent their wallet via lobbying...spend the vast majority of their time in office fundraising to get re-elected and produce nothing in terms of improving the quality of life for their constituents. Look at Biden...he's done zero for all of his years in office. He just takes credit for the what little work of others that just happened to occur when he was fogging a mirror in office!
We are over-taxed without being able to stop the insanity. We do need to fix this!
Even death tax
...and inflation --- the hidden tax.