Fees + Fines = More Taxes Good Morning everyone! - Yesterday morning we had an interesting conversation about the individual free- lancer's every day like struggles. My husband remarked that it wasn't so much the fact that it was generally getting tougher to acquire work but rather due to an increasing amount of financial burdens to deal with on monthly base. Not only can we as free- lancers not afford paying for medical care, we also wonder how much longer we'll be able to hold our fortress. Thousands of stories just sound the same if not much worse, of course, all depending on how many kids there are in the mix. My husband received an e- mail several weeks ago from a friend, and he printed it out for me so that my readers get a vague idea of why being self- employed is becoming ever the more of an uphill battle. What truly concerns us is not just the circumstance that living expenses in general are clearly on the rise, but all the extra fees and fines that are so lavishly sprinkled onto an already sickeningly overly rich and heavy cake. Some day the whole system will inevitably collapse and fail as the foundation, which is carried by millions of self- employees, has been rotting from the inside for a good while. A Capitalist nation in dire need of more taxes?
It very much seems so even if taxes are often times disguised in the cloth of fees and fines, presumably as not to push us over the edge of the cliff. After all, what good would it do if things really started going south, and we ultimately jumped from the hot pan right into the fire?
Right, so all those stupid extra ways of taxation keep us in check. The question is how much longer though. Being from Europe, I truly wish I could say we were better off there, but sadly we aren't. Therefore, I've come to the conclusion that this problem weighs more or less heavily on most industrial nations. The e- mail in my hand reveals a total of 43 different taxes which I'd like to mention, some of which I had no clue that they even existed. Ready? Here we go.
Building permit tax, CDL license tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog license tax,
federal income tax, federal unemployment tax, fishing license tax, food license tax, fuel permit tax, gasoline tax, hunting license tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, IRS interest charges (tax on top of tax), IRS penalties (tax on top of tax), liquor tax, luxury tax, marriage license tax, Medicare tax, property tax, real estate tax, service charge taxes, social security tax, road usage tax (truckers),
sales tax, recreational vehicle tax, school tax, state income tax, state unemployment tax (SUTA), telephone federal excise tax, telephone federal universal service fee tax, telephone federal, state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage surcharge tax, telephone recurring and non- recurring charges tax, telephone state and local tax, telephone usage charge tax, utility tax, vehicle license registration tax, vehicle sales tax, watercraft registration tax, well permit tax, workers compensation tax and much more. Boy, oh boy! Did you notice that especially all the permits and licenses are taxed? And how about talking cheap on the telephone? Anyways, congrats on coining some of these terms! Gee, who comes up with all that crap, I wonder ? I'm pretty certain that there are many more taxes, specially hidden ones taking all the fees and fines into the equation as well. - Let's talk about the lottery money for a second. If I won, say $10 million dollars, I would have to accept a "fair" chunk of 60% to be taken out right away, which again is nothing but taxes. Supposedly, the money, in this case my 60% plus the weekly gains from all active lottery players, flows into the education of our kids.What a fantastic concept! So, schools are funded and subsidized at least out of two major money pits, right? One is the lottery, and the other one comes form billions of school taxes. Hm, may I ask just one simple question with regards to that? Why on earth are US students generally getting dumber by the day then if they are backed up like no other social group? Right, something is definitely not right here at all! As long as students do not master the simplest of basic skills such as reading, writing and calculations, I don't think, more tax money should be wasted. You don't want to bet on the wrong horse. After all, it may turn out to be a dead one. At last, show me ten randomly picked kids that can spell as well as rewrite this sentence.
America is in a severe fiscal crisis despite taxation through the roof.
It very much seems so even if taxes are often times disguised in the cloth of fees and fines, presumably as not to push us over the edge of the cliff. After all, what good would it do if things really started going south, and we ultimately jumped from the hot pan right into the fire?
Right, so all those stupid extra ways of taxation keep us in check. The question is how much longer though. Being from Europe, I truly wish I could say we were better off there, but sadly we aren't. Therefore, I've come to the conclusion that this problem weighs more or less heavily on most industrial nations. The e- mail in my hand reveals a total of 43 different taxes which I'd like to mention, some of which I had no clue that they even existed. Ready? Here we go.
Building permit tax, CDL license tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog license tax,
federal income tax, federal unemployment tax, fishing license tax, food license tax, fuel permit tax, gasoline tax, hunting license tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, IRS interest charges (tax on top of tax), IRS penalties (tax on top of tax), liquor tax, luxury tax, marriage license tax, Medicare tax, property tax, real estate tax, service charge taxes, social security tax, road usage tax (truckers),
sales tax, recreational vehicle tax, school tax, state income tax, state unemployment tax (SUTA), telephone federal excise tax, telephone federal universal service fee tax, telephone federal, state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage surcharge tax, telephone recurring and non- recurring charges tax, telephone state and local tax, telephone usage charge tax, utility tax, vehicle license registration tax, vehicle sales tax, watercraft registration tax, well permit tax, workers compensation tax and much more. Boy, oh boy! Did you notice that especially all the permits and licenses are taxed? And how about talking cheap on the telephone? Anyways, congrats on coining some of these terms! Gee, who comes up with all that crap, I wonder ? I'm pretty certain that there are many more taxes, specially hidden ones taking all the fees and fines into the equation as well. - Let's talk about the lottery money for a second. If I won, say $10 million dollars, I would have to accept a "fair" chunk of 60% to be taken out right away, which again is nothing but taxes. Supposedly, the money, in this case my 60% plus the weekly gains from all active lottery players, flows into the education of our kids.What a fantastic concept! So, schools are funded and subsidized at least out of two major money pits, right? One is the lottery, and the other one comes form billions of school taxes. Hm, may I ask just one simple question with regards to that? Why on earth are US students generally getting dumber by the day then if they are backed up like no other social group? Right, something is definitely not right here at all! As long as students do not master the simplest of basic skills such as reading, writing and calculations, I don't think, more tax money should be wasted. You don't want to bet on the wrong horse. After all, it may turn out to be a dead one. At last, show me ten randomly picked kids that can spell as well as rewrite this sentence.
America is in a severe fiscal crisis despite taxation through the roof.
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