Doing my taxes and thinking how many days a year I work just to pay government taxes so I don’t go to jail or they take my house. My wife and myself worked about 45 days each just to pay federal, state, and property taxes so we don’t go to jail. Over two months of my life to support an unconstitutional government I don’t even like. That doesn’t include all the other taxes I pay like gas tax.
My wife works all year and doesn’t even make enough to pay our government debt.
True freedom.
Good timing for your post. I was thinking about starting something similar. According to my accountant I owe the feds another $4300 for 2023 taxes. I just lost my job on Tuesday and would sure prefer to keep that $4300 myself instead of giving it to our horrifically corrupt government which is just going to either give it to illegals or Ukraine. None too happy.
Zero days working, still pay taxes.
Retired no days worked but still pay taxes.
I paid taxes all year on my salary. My wife paid taxes all year on her salary. I paid taxes all year on my military pension. I Apr I will have the "honor" of sending the IRS a check for slightly over $2200. So I guess I pay taxes every single day.
A bunch. It would be depressing to add up all taxes I pay.
That being said, I would rather pay taxes than be a taker.
Bingo...
You are my hero...
Starve the BASTARDS!
Not a fugking clue.
Its best if I don't think about it
Sales tax, gas tax……, not sure how to classify licenses and permits.
Social Security/Medicare; A tax or a savings deposit? There’s a can of worms. Lots of monkey poop flying over in the Boomer/SS thread about that one.
Actually, being in business, I get paid last. I work into July to cover overhead. Taxes take up a few months more. I guess I can spend most of what comes in after that. Probably still some more hidden taxes get paid out of that too. 🤔
I pay some kind of tax every stinkin day of the year.
I’m just glad they’re using it wisely.
Property taxes suck, and insurance is as much or more than the property taxes.
I don’t but that doesn’t stop them for holding their hands out for a check…
And Cheers to you good Sir!
No longer working. We will see how much of the Social Security we have to send back next year.
Pretty damned stupid to distribute it and then demand part of it back. That did not happen to my grandparents a few decades ago.
I can't believe Reagan signed this one.
The taxation of Social Security began in 1984 following passage of a set of Amendments in 1983, which were signed into law by President Reagan in April 1983. These amendments passed the Congress in 1983 on an overwhelmingly bi-partisan vote.
Iffing ya don't feed .GOV... dem poor bastards will starve...
Pay yur taxes... Biden need yo dough mo dan yo.
I did this calculation once. I worked until late summer to pay the commies before I got a cent to keep.
No longer working. We will see how much of the Social Security we have to send back next year.
Pretty damned stupid to distribute it and then demand part of it back. That did not happen to my grandparents a few decades ago.
I can't believe Reagan signed this one.
The taxation of Social Security began in 1984 following passage of a set of Amendments in 1983, which were signed into law by President Reagan in April 1983. These amendments passed the Congress in 1983 on an overwhelmingly bi-partisan vote.
Reagan sometimes liked taxing folks
In the summer of 1967, during Reagan's first year as governor, and contrary to his campaign promises, Reagan signed off on a record tax increase for the state of California — an 18 percent, roughly $1-billion hike.
According to Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, the increase included boosting sales taxes from three to five cents on the dollar; raising the maximum income tax from 7 to 10 percent; and increases in bank, corporation, inheritance, liquor and cigarette taxes.
Paid $23,000 last year. Got $4,000 in return. Works out to about 38 days for purely taxes.
How would one actually figure that out.
Payroll deductions, real estate....are easy.
How about gas taxes?
Car registration? Any other licenses or permits?
What about hidden consumer taxes?
How much do you spend annually to pay the taxes for the businesses you deal with?
They don't pay them, even though they bitch that they do.
Taxes are a consideration in setting retail pricing, in order to get the necessary
net income. (Except farmers. They get told what they earn, and what they pay)
61% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2020...
The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.7 percent of all federal individual income taxes... while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.3 percent.
https://taxfoundation.org/blog/us-households-paying-no-income-tax/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/61p...axes-in-2020-tax-policy-center-says.html
I work till around mid July to pay all my taxes including state , fed, and property taxes... However, it all depends what you mean by how long.. I pay about $10,000 in taxes , not including sales tax, gas taxes, tax on my electric bill to help " the poor", and likely a host of other taxes. I make about $1,000 a week, so if you look at it how long I work to pay my taxes,, then it's about 10 weeks,,, or 20% . There are hidden taxes we hardly see however.
The stock market does most of our "work" and it pays all of our taxes. It still smarts to write those big quarterly checks and then usually another big one in March/April.
If you (painfully) calculate all the taxes, fees, and licenses we Americans pay, it come to almost half of what we earn. And that's never enough, says the government.
At one point, all of 'em...
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