Posted on 04/18/2015 6:46:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
This was the horrible week in which millions of Americans paid their taxes to the ever increasing and intrusive federal government. This year, the tax burden has grown with Tax Freedom Day appearing on April 24, meaning that Americans will spend approximately one third of the year working for government before they can provide for their families.
Taxes are certainly oppressive in this country. Compared to last year, tax revenue increased 4.3% to $1.478 trillion in the first 6½ months of the 2015 fiscal year. Even worse, the insatiable federal government continues to spend money with reckless abandon. Through April 1 of this year, the budget deficit was an astounding $439 billion, a significant increase from 2014.
Not only are taxes and deficits increasing, but the actual size of the federal tax code is exploding. When the income tax was created in 1913, the tax code was only 400 pages. It increased to 26,000 pages by 1984 and has tripled in size in the last 30 years. Since the implementation of Obamacare in 2010, the federal tax code has increased another 3,300 pages, resulting in more rules and regulations for Americans to decipher. Today, the federal tax code is over 74,000 pages of bureaucratic nonsense, making it impossible for the average American to complete their own tax return. It is no surprise that 94% of Americans need professional assistance in finishing their tax return.
According to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, Americans spend $32 billion to prepare ever more complicated tax forms and in the process waste 6.1 billion hours annually. This costs our economy $234 billion in lost productivity. Americans should be using their time and money on more fruitful pursuits, such as providing for the needs of their families.
In the shaky Obama economy, Americans need to be as industrious as possible. While the federal government is expanding and creating massive budget deficits, leading to a national debt exceeding $18.1 trillion, it is a much different situation for average Americans. For the 119 million Americans who are working, most are seeing minimal increase in wages, and, in March, the Labor Department reported that their average work week declined to 34.5 hours, below what many need to live comfortably. Thus, it is no surprise that there are 6.7 million Americans who have to work multiple jobs just to pay their household bills.
While the unemployment rate is supposedly at 5.5%, the real situation is reflected in the number of people who have left the workforce. There are over 93 million eligible Americans who are not employed, an all-time high, resulting in a labor force participation rate of 62.7%, the lowest in almost four decades. These unemployed Americans are not paying income taxes, increasing the burden on those in the labor force, who must pay oppressive taxes to pay for our constantly expanding government.
In this country, the tax man cometh in life and death as we currently impose a draconian 40% estate tax. Fortunately, House Republicans just passed a bill to eliminate this immoral tax, but when it moves to the Senate it faces an uncertain future. Not surprisingly, Democrats claim that eliminating the estate tax will only help the “wealthy.” In reality, it will allow the survival of many small family businesses, and the continued employment of Americans who need those jobs.
Our unfair tax burden should be a primary issue in the upcoming presidential campaign. One candidate, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), has offered a particularly bold solution: close down the IRS and allow Americans to complete their taxes on a postcard. This plan offers tax reduction and simplification, just what America needs after six years of President Barack Obama.
soetoro creates “refugee week” sept 13 and refugee corpse from americorpse...say goodbye to USA
http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/obama-demands-welcoming-for-illegals/
That time was quite a while ago, when Congress passed the forfeiture laws allowing the IRS to accuse a taxpayer of some infraction, seize the property, homes and businesses of the accused, lose in the tax court, and NEVER GIVE BACK WHAT THEY WRONGFULLY TOOK! The Founders have been rolling over in their graves for years over that blatant persecution of taxpayers by this greedy government.
But no offsetting cuts in spending. Which is my only real complaint about the plan.
End illegal immigration
Abolish the IRS
That’s about 95% of what I’m looking for in a presidential candidate.
Interesting article. But some propaganda in there. Not sure why anyone needs to hire an accountant. Before retiring, I ran 3 small businesses and never needed an accountant. Still do my own taxes even now and I have to complete 9 forms.
I will agree it can be complicated and requires elimination. 9 forms is 9 too many.
Liberalism predominates politically these days.
And liberals are really nothing but socialists who believe all wealth (except theirs) belongs to the state.
And that it is the state (they) who have the right to decide who gets what and why.
And taxes are the lifeblood of the "Fundamental Transformation" to the socialist state they so desperately seek.
Having an Accountant is a form of protection....from the (govt) mob
8. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
9. The management of a great funded debt and a extensive system of taxes will afford a plea, not to be neglected, for establishment of a great incorporated bank. the use of such a machine is well understood. If the Constitution, according to its fair meaning, should not authorize it, so much the better. Push it through by a forced meaning and you will get in the bargain an admirable precedent for future misconstructions.
10. “Divide and govern”…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
TREASON - aiding and abetting the enemy within.
YOU DID build this, CONgre$$…
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic. DEFUND/DISMANLE their collectives, foreign and domestic.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”
http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Not sure I agree. Know quite a few who have been burned by poor accountants, or because the IRS had a red flag on one or more deductions.
File an extension and send in your return in July. Your chances of an audit get reduced significantly, even if there are mistakes in your paperwork.
end illegal immigration
deport millions of illegals
stop legal immigration for years, as done prior
abolish IRS
abolish dept of educ
Yes, and resist further and they feed you several bullets.
To some degree. Read my post about tax fraud.
It all depends on who you are.
We keep importing illegal immigrants from SA, Syria, and God knows where to put the SSDI because they can not speak English and therefore can’t get jobs, allow Government employees to NOT pay their taxes (there are bills in the works to not let them get new jobs or to fire them for not paying taxes)and do not make Dem allies pay their “Fair share.) It is ONLY a matter of time until Obama has achieved his goal of a complete takeover of the Government. If the NAACP wants a war, Please do it before I’m gone. I enjoyed thinking I was winning in 1969 to 1974.
The article says we work 1/3rd of the time to pay taxes. But I think they are only referring to Federal Taxes.
With State/local taxes it has to be 40-50%.
Oh No. You mean one of the loyal civil servants might behave illegally? Tell me it isn’t so.
Sorry to hear about your nightmare.
Every citizen who pays taxes should muster his courage and go to the largest IRS office in his area about lunch time or quitting time, if you can figure out when that is, and see wo works there. It will scare the living s__t out of you to think that group of people has unlimited access to your personal financial records.
And you are the one who is treated as a criminal.
It is over 50% for most when sales, property, phone and the myriad of hidden taxes are exposed. What’s worse is taxpayers get little return. Those parasites that pay nothing get 70% of the benefits
Thou shall not steal. I an not a Bible scholar nor do I play one on the internet, that said I have never come across an exemption for majority vote. We have become a nation of thieves. 99% of Christians are very much on board with this. This will not end well.
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