Here in Illinois we have more units of government than any other State including California.
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Property taxes are unconstitutional-—change my mind.
Also, since most problems or “crisis’” are from public schooling, I say we abolish public schools.
State taxes I’m fine with...
Federal income tax is a scam.
The Republicans in Congress should try to send to the states a constitutional amendment that would cap middle class property taxation, such as:
Property tax on any residential property of less than 2799 square feet of finished space shall be no higher the 2019 dollar amount on the property, or for a newer or since resold property what a similar property in the same area would have been taxed at for 2019 if it lacked owner specific tax breaks, increased by 3% per calendar year since 2019 and by any percentage increase to its finished space.
Fighting for such a property tax cap now in Congress would add the electors of several deep blue states to Trump’s total and make Congress turn deep red come November.
Even devoted Democratic voters do not want to get taxed out of their homes.
How would schools get funded if property taxes are capped to 2019 scale levels? By higher sales taxation and by services taxation that is used in Florida in lieu of having a state income tax.
I don’t want to pay for schooling of the kids of the people pampering the well-to-do. The well-to-do need to pay for such schooling via service taxation.
The Republicans in Congress should try to send to the states a constitutional amendment that would cap middle class income taxation along the lines of:
Federal income taxation of people with incomes within the range of 90% of the full-time federal civilian workforce [i.e. the middle class by income] shall not be at greater percentage rate burdens than in 2023.
[What about if there is a war? Federal civilian salaries can be temporarily compressed downward as may be needed so the entire upper middle class is temporarily slid out of cap range.]
Joe Biden has said he doesn’t want to raise taxes on (two) people making under $400,000.
Except Ukrainians, they say they are paid too much in taxes.
But are they happy there aren’t any more Mean Tweets coming from the White House?
I’m sure we would all be shocked at how much in various taxes we pay.
We directly see the income taxes withheld out of our paychecks.
So what about taxes we pay for gasoline, as an example? In some places over $1 a gallon of what you pay is simply paying various taxes on that gasoline. But those taxes are rarely broken out and listed on a gas pump.
What about all the sales tax you pay on everything you buy when you go shopping? I don’t think many people have a good handle on how much in taxes they pay every time they go shopping, and how much that adds up over the course of a year.
Homeowners get a property tax bill and can document that amount. Renters do not get a property tax bill but their rent is certainly higher than it would be otherwise because of the property tax that the landlord pays for that property.
The government is so awash with money that literally wasting billions is no problem at all. Yes, taxes are too high.
Name one thing the gooberment, any gooberment in this country, has made better or less expensive. Just one.
The real problem is that the same people who complain about paying too much in taxes never confront the incumbent candidates about taxes and keep voting for them.
The people who get “good value” pay little or no income taxes, and no property tax — just sales taxes on retail goods and fuel. Those without cars don’t even pay the latter directly.
One of the US’s huge political problems is that so many “voters” do not have to consider the personal cost of their selections (or if they consider it, they are voting for free lunch paid for by others). The seldom heard corollary to “No taxation without representation” is “No representation without taxation”.
This is why there is a thriving cash-based economy where I live in So Cal.
Got a 20% discount and free desserts from a catering service for cash and also four new tires for cash, saved about $80 on the tires.
California. So little to no return for our tax dollars - it’s going to support a very large illegal and welfare population.
"Most in new poll say they pay too much in taxes"
Wake up patriots!
Paying too much in taxes is the long arm of the 16th Amendment (16A; direct taxes) at work.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
The 16th Amendment is repealable independently of corrupt Congress. Patrionts need to work with their new, Trump-supporting state lawmakers to get rid of 16A.
The 17th Amendment (17A; popular voting for federal senators) needs to disappear too.
Repealing 16&17A will effectively “secede” all the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattetive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Note that Congress is unconstitutionally spending your 16A taxes too.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“ If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
(Again) “Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattetive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Most in new poll also want more spending, or at least don’t want spending cut. Polls basically show that people want something for nothing.
Yuhp, ad most of the peope replying to this poll have all kinds of ideas about how much more the governement should spendon them.
I’m just grateful I’m not getting all the government I’m paying for!
Less than 60% of Americans pay federal income tax at all.
* A military rated as “Weak”
* Hundreds of billions subsidizing EVs and other green scams
* Tens of billions subsidizing invaders from the south
* Twenty trillion on welfare and multi-generational chronic poverty
* An out-of-control government that hates its citizens and incarcerates them for no reason
* Utterly useless COVID lockdowns throwing the economy into a multi-year tailspin and destroying hundreds of thousands of businesses
* A militarized justice system that the incumbent uses to harass and prosecute his opponent
How can people say they don’t get value for their money?
And they deserve it. Pure karma.