It might not be fair, and it will certainley be going up by leaps and bounds for everyone, but if you cook the food someone else paid for and turn on the light to see wth you're doing, you're still going to pay taxes on the utilities.
If you buy second hand shoes to go beg with, you'll pay taxes.
President Bush's tax cuts were responsible for over 10 million low income people not paying any income tax at all, while lowering the rates all across the board.
The result? We recovered from the dot com bust recession and 911 recession with LESS tax money, and a fraction of "stimulus" programs, such as that $600 check that most people got right away.
Before long, we were back around 5% unemployment, and no trillion dollar failed experiments, with many more in the works
I don't worry so much about people not spending taxes on wasted dollars as I worry about the government wasting money in the 1st place.
Even in the 1st few years after 911, the rats wouldn't let a military appropriation go through unless it had at least 50% pork - one year it took 5-6 months of Pelosi, Murtha, et al waving all that pork he'd have to allow if our guys were going to get their supplies, and then have the gall to claim that Bush got us in a quagmire, along with a commercial depicting our military surrendering, with muck up to their waist and rifles over their heads.
“they are paying taxes of some sort.”
Obviously we all pay taxes of some kind. My point is that some, unfairly, pay no federal income tax. It isn’t right.
EVERYONE should pay federal income tax. I don’t care if it’s only 1% of their income. In addition, everytime the federal income tax is raised it is raised for everyone. Only then, when everyone is a victim of rising taxes, will EVERYONE be sensitized to how the US Government is spending OUR tax dollars.