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May. 26th, 2004 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, hold up, more than 10% of my pay is lost to Federal taxes? $56.13 withheld from a $530.00 paycheck! To say nothing of state taxes or the other withholdings... All told, I lost nearly 25% of my paycheck to the government!
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Date: 2004-05-26 02:13 pm (UTC)Mostly roads in Iraq these days, but still.
And the Strom Thurmond Health & Wellness Center.
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Date: 2004-05-26 02:22 pm (UTC)I've never been a great fan of federal healthcare, either...
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Date: 2004-05-26 03:02 pm (UTC)I mentioned roads mostly because - along with national defence and law enforcement - they're (well, large highways at least) traditional market-failure areas (using taxes to solve market failures is typically what separates the libertarians from the anarchists). I'd also argue that health care is an area of market failure, but that's for another day.
Detailed information on the federal budget can be obtained from the Congressional Budget Office (though interpreting a federal budget is a skill in itself).
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Date: 2004-05-26 03:08 pm (UTC)I think, perhapse, I'm more libertarian than I'd like to admit, but I'd be far more comfortable paying fewer taxes.
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Date: 2004-05-26 03:21 pm (UTC)ha!
Date: 2004-05-26 03:49 pm (UTC)Re: ha!
Date: 2004-05-26 04:03 pm (UTC)Re: ha!
Date: 2004-05-27 03:02 pm (UTC)PA State tax
all the other fun jaz
AND philly wage tax
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Date: 2004-05-27 12:29 pm (UTC)OK, that may be a littlar harsh, just listing the sore spots; I'm not a complete ingrate. But I don't think they need 1/5th of my paycheck to do it, and if they do I'd expect to see a campaign to convince me they need it, that I might give willingly, rather than have them stick their hands in my pockets.
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Date: 2004-05-27 01:22 pm (UTC)Yeah yeah!! All that stuff!!
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Date: 2004-05-27 01:39 pm (UTC)You're either far more optomistic than I, or far my sarcastic.
I can't tell which. :p
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Date: 2004-05-27 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 08:26 pm (UTC)you know that if they made a campaign on why they needed your money, you would be spiteful of them wasting your money just to tell you why they need it.
also, this was in the papers today http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58808-2004May26.html
because if the taxes didn't take enough, they're now going to charge you more for everything else, too.