Tax Problems
I saw a personalized license plate the other day that said something to the effect of “MY ST8 TAXS 2 MUCH.”
This was not a bumper sticker, it was a personalized plate. This person paid an extra tax to complain about taxes. THAT is passion, with a touch of stupidity.
Surely some people in every state feel their state taxes too much.
Who are these people? What are they bitching about?
License-plate guy was driving on a road paid for by taxes. The police that monitor the road and try to catch insane drivers are paid by taxes. If his house is on fire, tax-paid firemen will risk their lives to put it out.
You know what is interesting? I never see this plate (or bumper sticker) on the cars of the truly wealthy, and they are taxed the most! Hmmmm, why is that?
I am guessing license-plate guy is middle income, but lives beyond his means, and needs to blame his monetary shortage on someone else.
I would bet I make no more than this guy, and pay the same amount of tax. So why am I not moaning and groaning about taxes all the time?
Because I don’t spend more than I have. I am not in debt up to my eyeballs, so taxes don’t seem so high.
I love having good schools, and good roads, and firemen willing to try to rescue my house.
Of course, this ties together nicely with our current mortgage disaster.
(1) unscrupulous lenders were finding the income-impaired and granting them loans to buy houses
(2) other people (morons) decided they wanted mega-houses, two and three times bigger than they needed.
I am confident license-plate guy falls into the latter category. He overbought on a house and/or a boat, and has credit-card issues, and needs someone else to blame.
License-plate guy, you are breaking my heart.
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wrote on 25 March 2009 at 19:13
If License-plate guy thinks he pays too much taxes, he shouldn’t have voted for Bush – who took the majority of his our our taxes AND the hugest surplus this country ever had (under Clinton) and threw them away in Iraq.
The issue is not if you are taxed too much, it’s WHERE those taxes are going. If the US stopped waging unjust wars and playing the world leader by financing other countries, we all would pay a lot less taxes for the services we get. Or alternately, would pay the same amount of taxes and ALL have medical insurance, paid pension plans and paid 6 weeks vacations per year (like most Western European countries do)