Posted on 09/26/2018 8:10:50 AM PDT by PFW
In 2017, the American people spent more money on taxes than on clothing and food combined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s data on consumer expenditures released this month.
“Consumer units” (which include families, financially independent individuals, and people living in a single household who share expenses) spent an average of $9,562 on food and clothing in 2017.
At the same time, they were forced to pay $16,749 on federal, state and local taxes.
*** With the United States federal budget deficit currently reaching comical levels ... it doesn’t seem to be a stretch to say that not before long, Americans will be paying more for government than EVERYTHING else combined.
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Outrageous. The tax code is criminal.
The political criminal class will do anything to keep it that way.
This hints at why I moved from Seattle to 32 acres in south-central Kentucky seven years ago. My ANNUAL property taxes are less than one months payment on a new Toyota Camry.
And I have 15 laying hens.
Every time I fly into Ohare, Seatac or LAX I marvel at the enormous tax base below me being fleeced.
I’m glad I don’t have to go to any of those places.
That is worse than the laboring serfs in medieval times had to endure. And we still say we live in “the land of the free?” Perhaps that should be amended to “land of the freebies,” for millions who are living off of someone else’s money.
Nothingburger. Food is cheap nowadays. Plenty of choice(ramen). Clothing markup is a real joke. Only a fool would pay top price. We got more than a few out there.
I moved to KY from Seattle, one of my daughters moved to studio City, and the grand kids are in the western suburbia near Chicago.
The daughter moved to the Phoenix area so I’ll never have to go to California again, hopefully. My parents are still in Seattle, though...in their 90’s.
Does this include EBT card recipients in the stats?
Property taxes alone is costing me nearly 4 months of income.
bkmk
Note that the congressional record shows that the Founding States had left the care of the people to the states, not the feds.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
In other words, nearly all federal domestic spending programs are based on state powers and state revenues that the post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
So after the 2018 midterm elections when patriots fire corrupt career federal lawmakers up for reelection, patriots will need to do the following.
Patriots will need to support Pres. Trump in working with new patriot federal lawmakers to have the following Supreme Court clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes put at the top of the universal, post-card sized federal tax form.
"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.
In other words, the states cannot provide the social spending programs that the citizens of a given state want, as the Founding States had intended for the states to do, because the corrupt feds keep stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
And to make Section 8-compliant taxes last as long as possible, patriots will also need to support Trump in working with the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
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