Posted on 04/15/2020 7:02:18 AM PDT by harpygoddess
The first modern income tax was levied in Britain between 1799 and 1816 to fund the Napoleonic wars, but it did not become permanent until 1874. Similarly the United States adopted a like measure during the Civil War, but it was not institutionalized until the ratification of the 16th amendment to the Constitution in 1913. Related: tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
~ Will Rogers
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“I had discovered I was paying a huge amount of money to the taxman,” he once explained in interview. “You are so happy that you’ve finally started earning money – and then you find out about tax. In those days we paid nineteen shillings and sixpence out of every pound (there were twenty shillings in the pound), and with supertax and surtax and tax-tax it was ridiculous – a heavy penalty to pay for making money… It was, and still is, typical. Why should this be so? Are we being punished for something we have forgotten to do?...That was the big turn-off for Britain. Anybody who ever made any money moved to America or somewhere else.”
One of the best kept tax secrets has been the postponing of filing/paying your California Income Taxes to coincide with the federal postponement.
We paid our half yearly property taxes to keep our local government semi afloat.
Our sons’ best lesson to become a conservative or a good independent was their first paycheck stubs with all of the various tax deductions. One still has that stub on his little personal bulletin board, and he is now 52.
> keep our local government semi afloat.
Why would you want to do that?
For us, Tax Day will be July 15 this year. We pay quarterly and Q1 and Q2 payments are now due by July 15. We’re simply going to escrow the money into some high-yield accounts and pay it off then. It can’t hurt to have additional cushion with our existing emergency funds, I guess.
High Yield Accounts? Exactly where do you find those in this almost zero interest environment. I went ahead and paid my Q1, mailed the check yesterday. Didn’t think the extra interest I could earn on it would make a difference one way or the other.
“Ice? What ice? That’s no ice here.”
Actually, our city has basically good elected people and most hires.
Also, due to Prop 13, our property taxes have specific places and limits where they can be spent. We have turned down several recent ballot issues for the children and other do good bs.
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