toybox99615
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define less taxes
for the sake of clarity define pay less taxes. If you simply talk about a reduction in the income tax tables you are right. However if you add back in the cost of every additional user fee, excise tax and the affect of those on prices you pay for goods and services you might find there has been no overall reduction in taxes.
Start by looking at your phone bill and see how many little fees have been added or increased since 2000. Check out your local school budget and see if the amount from the fed for something as simple as school lunch programs has actually been reduced causing more local property tax increases. Meanwhile the same Bush administration has enacted multiple mandates for schools, municipalities and state government with no federal funding. Most of these mandates have required some additional state or local tax to be added to your bill. Most people don't even know that some of these taxes were added over the last few years. Is everyone aware we now pay a very small Federal excise tax on all fuels that goes to fund the replacement of buried fuel tanks owned by private enterprise? And the list goes on and on of those things you now have numerous little federal fees and taxes added to your bill.
for the sake of clarity define pay less taxes. If you simply talk about a reduction in the income tax tables you are right. However if you add back in the cost of every additional user fee, excise tax and the affect of those on prices you pay for goods and services you might find there has been no overall reduction in taxes.
Start by looking at your phone bill and see how many little fees have been added or increased since 2000. Check out your local school budget and see if the amount from the fed for something as simple as school lunch programs has actually been reduced causing more local property tax increases. Meanwhile the same Bush administration has enacted multiple mandates for schools, municipalities and state government with no federal funding. Most of these mandates have required some additional state or local tax to be added to your bill. Most people don't even know that some of these taxes were added over the last few years. Is everyone aware we now pay a very small Federal excise tax on all fuels that goes to fund the replacement of buried fuel tanks owned by private enterprise? And the list goes on and on of those things you now have numerous little federal fees and taxes added to your bill.
