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[jackofallgeeks]

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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[timv.livejournal.com]

Ah....but look at what you've GAINED from the government!

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

You mean like the education system I don't trust, the medical I don't use, the welfare I don't believe in, and that road work that's never done?

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.

[timv.livejournal.com]

You mean like the education system I don't trust, the medical I don't use, the welfare I don't believe in, and that road work that's never done?
Yeah yeah!! All that stuff!!

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-laughs-
You're either far more optomistic than I, or far my sarcastic.
I can't tell which. :p

[timv.livejournal.com]

sarcasm

[metis2be.livejournal.com]

"if they do I'd expect to see a campaign to convince me they need it, that I might give willingly"

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.