It’s tax time. Just a reminder. People are now paying more in taxes than all their other expenses combined. We fought the American Revolution over taxation, and it was much less taxation than we experience now. And we’re paying for criminal politicians that don’t represent our interests, and could care less whether we live or die. We’re paying for a fascist domestic police force(s), and IRS thugs that threaten us with audits and jail. We’re paying so the FSA can enjoy the finer things in life devoid of having to work. We’re paying so Obama can murder innocent children by drones, and our military can terrorize the rest of the world.
I’ve been trying to think of one positive thing my taxes are going toward. I came up with nothing.
And it’s good to know, the union government drones can get away with not paying their taxes (and they were exempt from Obamacare), even though they make 60% more than the same person in the private sector (you tax money at “work”). Fuck taxes and fuck the IRS.
If It’s Such A Privelege, Why Do They Have To Stick A Gun In Your Face?
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
Two. Billion. Hours.
That’s how much time people in the Land of the Free waste each year preparing and filing their tax forms to the IRS– roughly 13 hours for each of the ~150 million individual returns filed.
And if you’re doing your own taxes this weekend, it may certainly seem like you’ve spent that 2 billion hours yourself just preparing your 1040.
To put this number in perspective, two billion hours is roughly the time it would take to walk to Uranus and back… which is a bit ironic given where you’d probably like to tell Mr. Obama to go stick his tax forms right about now.
Now, I’m not going to tell you today that taxes are illegal. Nor will I tell you that you don’t have to file.
I think taxes are morally reprehensible. Taxes rob an entire population of its financial resources in favor of a tiny political elite that has a long-term track record of incompetence and deceit.
Unfortunately, though, this humiliating exercise is forcibly perpetrated at gunpoint. So not filing your taxes can lead to very bad consequences. Just ask Richard Hatch.
As you may recall, Richard was the very first winner of the reality show Survivor.
What you probably don’t know is that Richard spent several years in prison on charges of “attempted tax evasion.”
I was astounded when he told me that ATTEMPTED tax evasion is a crime in the Land of the Free. It sounds more like Thoughtcrime.
People are brainwashed into believing that taxes are a ‘privilege’, and the “price we pay for civilized society.”
But if the society is so civilized, and it’s such a privilege, then why do they have to threaten people at the point of a gun?
It’s because the value proposition is completely upside down. Whether in the US, France, England, Spain, or Italy, people pay out the nose for taxes… and get very little in return.
It’s like forking over fifty bucks for a Big Mac– it doesn’t make any sense. There has to be a balance between how much you pay and the value that you receive.
And everywhere you look these days, that value is in serious decline.
Increasing chunks of governments’ budgets are going just to pay interest on the debt… not to mention absurd domestic spying programs, or destructive wars to go (as George Carlin joked) “drop bombs on brown people” in foreign lands, and more than 100 million people that don’t have to work for a living.
Think about it as you write that check to the government– are you getting any value?
A few hundred years ago, the Founding Fathers certainly didn’t think so. As Samuel Adams summed up in 1764, taxes made the colonists “tributary slaves” to the British government.
And the taxes that they were paying were almost nothing compared to what people pay today. They would be astounded to find citizens in “free societies” paying 40%, 50% of their -income-, plus property, estates, sales purchases, imports, etc. to a massively bloated government.
House defeats bill to fire federal workers delinquent on taxes
By Pete Kasperowicz
The House on Monday rejected a GOP bill that would have set up a process for firing federal workers who have “seriously delinquent tax debts” and prevented people in that situation from being hired by the government.
Members voted 250-159 in favor of the Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act, which was sponsored by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). While that’s a clear majority in favor of the bill, it was called up under a suspension of House rules, which required a two-thirds majority vote.
The bill’s failure on the suspension calendar means Republicans could try to bring it up again under regular order, which would only require a simple majority for passage.
The bill was supported by 35 Democrats, and seven Republicans voted against it. Last year, the House passed a similar suspension bill in a 263-114 vote, with the help of 59 Democrats.
Republicans said the bill is needed to ensure federal workers are held to a higher standard of trust, in light of the $1 billion or so in delinquent taxes by employees covered by the bill.
“We want to hold ourselves to the standard that the taxpayers believe we should,” House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said.
BOHICA is the boat I charter to fish for monster sturgeon in Hells Canyon.
Can’t really think of anything good that my taxes are paying for either.
BOHICA
“Bend over here it comes again”
That was for the village idiot.
Fucknuts Obama is taxing us into oblivion, at least those of us that work, and nobody gives a flying fuck. Truly amazing….
Obama has Proposed 442 Tax Hikes Since Taking Office
Since taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama has formally proposed a total of 442 tax increases, according to an Americans for Tax Reform analysis of Obama administration budgets for fiscal years 2010 through 2015.
The 442 total proposed tax increases does not include the 20 tax increases Obama signed into law as part of Obamacare.
“History tells us what Obama was able to do. This list reminds us of what Obama wanted to do,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
The number of proposed tax increases per year is as follows:
-79 tax increases for FY 2010
-52 tax increases for FY 2011
-47 tax increases for FY 2012
-34 tax increases for FY 2013
-137 tax increases for FY 2014
-93 tax increases for FY 2015
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Obama budget with the lowest number of proposed tax increases was released during an election year: In February 2012, Obama released his FY 2013 budget, with “only” 34 proposed tax increases. Once safely re-elected, Obama came back with a vengeance, proposing 137 tax increases, a personal record high for the 44th President.
In addition to the 442 tax increases in his annual budget proposals, the 20 signed into law as part of Obamacare, and the massive tobacco tax hike signed into law on the sixteenth day of his presidency, Obama has made it clear he is open to other broad-based tax increases.
During an interview with Men’s Health in 2009, when asked about the idea of national tax on soda and sugary drinks, the President said, “I actually think it’s an idea that we should be exploring.”
During an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood in 2010, Obama said a European-style Value-Added-Tax was “something that would be novel for the United States.”
Obama’s statement was consistent with a pattern of remarks made by Obama White House officials refusing to rule out a VAT.
“Presidents are judged by history based on what they did in power. But presidents can only enact laws when the Congress agrees,” said Norquist. “Thus a record forged by such compromise tells you what a president — limited by congress — did rather than what he wanted to do.”
Read more: http://www.atr.org/obama-has-proposed-442-tax-hikes-taking-office#ixzz2ysbI4tdo
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Tax donkeys, milking cows, suppliers of the free shit to the free shit army:
$100K-Plus Salary Earners Pay 72% of Nation’s Share in Taxes
April 14, 2014 By Ali Meyer
(CNSNews.com) — Taxpayers earning $100,000 or more a year pay 71.6% of the nation’s share in taxes, according to the latest data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2011.
In 2011, according to the IRS, there were 145,370,240 tax returns filed. Among those returns, 125,914,418 or 86.6%, belonged to taxpayers earning a salary less than $100,000. The remaining 19,455,822 returns belonged to those taxpayers earning more than $100,000, or 13.4% of the total.
While those top earners, earning six figures or more, represented only 13.4% of the total number of returns reported to the IRS, they contributed nearly three-fourths of the total amount of tax revenue reported for that year.
In 2011, the IRS collected $1,088,559,743,000 based on taxpayer’s taxable income. From that total, 71.6%, or $779,547,834,000 came from those taxpayers earning six figures or more. Only 28.4%, or $308,816,180,000, came from those earning less than $100,000.
The IRS has been posting these tax data online since 1996, when the share of the nation’s tax-burden held by six-figure earners was 51%. Since then, the share of the nation’s taxes paid by six-figure earners has increased, peaking (so far) in 2007 when top earners paid 72.6% of the nation’s taxes.
“Republicans said the bill is needed to ensure federal workers are held to a higher standard of trust, in light of the $1 billion or so in delinquent taxes by employees covered by the bill.”
ONE BILLION IN DELINQUENT TAXES?!?!?
What’s that about enough to run the government for about 14 minutes or so? Whoopty shit..