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Federal Government Rakes in Record $2.1 Trillion in Tax Collections Through March
Breitbart ^ | 04/14/2022 | Jordan Dixon-Hamilton

Posted on 04/14/2022 5:03:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The federal government collected a record $2,121,987,000,000 in taxes for the first half of fiscal year 2022, according to the U.S. Treasury’s monthly statement.

The $2.1 trillion collected from October 2021 to March 2022 is the most the federal government has collected in the first half of a fiscal year and the first time government tax collections surpassed $2 trillion for that period. Before the first half of fiscal year 2022, the highest taxes ever collected during the first six months of a fiscal year came in fiscal year 2021, when the government collected $1,849,508,090,000 in taxes.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: collections; federalgovernment; rakes; tax
We have a debt problem not a tax problem
1 posted on 04/14/2022 5:03:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“We have a debt problem not a tax problem”
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Caused by a SPENDING problem.


2 posted on 04/14/2022 5:07:01 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nothing from ME!....I refuse to fund a government bent on destroying this Great Republic....I own nothing /nothing in my name/I forage for my foodstuffs and clothing in the refuse piles and I sell bridges under a pseudonym . Anyone want to buy a bridge?...I got dozens of them available RIGHT NOW! Now is the time to buy!


3 posted on 04/14/2022 5:20:28 AM PDT by mythenjoseph
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To: ChicagoConservative27

we have a socialism problem with us giving people and countries who do nothing our hard-earned money.


4 posted on 04/14/2022 5:21:01 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: mythenjoseph
and I sell bridges under a pseudonym . Anyone want to buy a bridge?...I got dozens of them available RIGHT NOW! Now is the time to buy!

Pro Tip: If you sell NFTs of bridges, it's all perfectly legal.

5 posted on 04/14/2022 5:51:26 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The federal government collected a record $2,121,987,000,000 in taxes for the first half of fiscal year 2022,

Maybe, but spending was about 40% more than that (correction invited).

6 posted on 04/14/2022 5:52:49 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=irs+auditing+poor+people

Poor people 5 times as likely to get audited by the IRS.


7 posted on 04/14/2022 6:05:04 AM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A major chunk of that tax revenue was from Elon Musk's stock sales last Fall!
8 posted on 04/14/2022 6:23:13 AM PDT by ExSES (the "bottomhttps://youtu.be/ycrqXJYf1SU-line")
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To: ExSES

EXACTLY !!!!


9 posted on 04/14/2022 8:29:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Congress: wee, we get to spend more money.🙄


10 posted on 04/14/2022 9:32:03 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: House Atreides
Caused by a SPENDING problem.

I'd call it an OUT OF CONTROL GOVERNMENT problem

They are also completely disconnected from reality

11 posted on 04/14/2022 1:00:01 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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