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This seems to me to be a no-brainer. Without even thinking about it, 30% right off the top for Uncle Sham (I'm talking about the entire amount you don't see, as if you were "self-employed") another 5% for state income tax, throw in a 5% state sales tax, excise tax on on gasoline, tolls, tires, and don't forget to figure that the price of everything is 30%+ higher than it ought to be because the price of what you buy includes all of those taxes on the mfr, distr, and retailer.

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What Really Is Turning the Budget Surpluses into Deficits

The Heritage Foundation | January 30, 2002 | by Brian M. Riedl

Posted on 4/15/02 4:11 PM Central by vannrox

Look at the cumlutative spending at all levels of goverment, The feds spend around 20% of GDP, arate and local goverment spends about another 20-25% of GDP (I remember Milton Freidman stating that goverment in the US consumes about 42% of GDP). It doesn't matter if the taxes are hidden as 'use taxes' or corporate taxes ect. they taxes are all passed on to us.

A significent amount of the cost of a carton of milk, car house is taxes. This doesn't even include the effects of non funded goverment mandates.

When a company declares a dividend, it has to declare an after-tax profit, which is taxed, to pay the dividend to you, which is taxed as part of your income, so that you can then buy some goods, which are taxed, and which have to cost extra so that vendor can pay salaries to its employees, which are taxed. If there were no government, the first company would show a higher profit, not having to pay extra for the taxes of its employees, nor the tax on the profit itself, so you would receive more money from them, and then you could buy more goods with it, which would be cheaper because they wouldn't be taxed, and the second company wouldn't have to pay income tax on its employees either. The ratio of how many goods you would get for the same production from company #1's dividend, represents the total costs of taxation TO YOU. I'd wager it's way more than 40%.

It's not a tax, but think of all the inefficencies cuased by government. Paperwork, legal costs, unfunded mandates, etc. If you want to rent a house, you have to make it "handicapped accesable". If you run a resturant, you have to have huge bathrooms that only have room for one toilet. The local McDonald's had to tear down it's entire building and rebuild in order to fit those ridiculus bathrooms.

Then there are the EPA nightmares -- how much has been spent on asbestos cleanups by businesses and institutions?

And, there is the litigation 'tax', where the government officials (mostly lawyers) make sure that you pay for their friends RVs, vacations, and houses. Over half of every kind of insurance you pay winds up in the pockets of lawyers. About a third of the cost of anything you buy goes toward product insurance. All because government is designed to take you money. That's what they do.

Lawyers -- think about how much they get paid, and think about how many of them there are, and think about how little they produce. They are running a scam with their friends in government office. Do yourself a favor -- don't vote for ANY lawyers.

Argggghhhhh!

If you are employed, your employer pays an amount for Social Security equal to the employees payment. Many people are not aware of this tax.

When I must pay to prove to the government that I am not a criminal in order to purchase a firearm, that is a tax which is being exacted to perform a function which is supposed to benefit the public and which obviously does not benefit me in the slightest ( I already know that I am not a criminal). That is a tax.

The requirement that firearms be shipped only to and from FFLs constitutes a presumed public safeguard for which the firearm owner is forced to pay. That is a tax.

The inflated value of an automatic rifle, whose manufacture has been outlawed by unConstitutional laws, is a tax which benefitted the original owner at the expense of later purchasers. That is a tax.

The additional cost of a worthless trigger lock which is required with any purchase of a handgun in Kalifornia is a tax.