Americans Now Spend More on Taxes Than Food and Clothing—Combined
In the land of the free, Americans now spend more money on taxes than they do on food and clothing—combined and the rate is increasing at a staggering pace.
A troubling new report released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that Americans spent more on taxes last year than they did on food and clothing—combined. As the report shows, this problem shows no signs of slowing as the average American’s rate of taxation is increasing at a staggering rate.
As CNS News reports, in 2016, according to BLS, “consumer units” (which include families, financially independent individuals, and people living in a single household who share expenses) spent more on average on federal, state and local taxes ($10,489) than they did on food ($7,203) and clothing ($1,803) combined ($9,006).
Instead of realizing they are taxing Americans, quite literally out of their clothes, the state has been increasing the rate every year.
The average tax bill for American “consumer units” increased from $7,423 in 2013 to $10,489 in 2016, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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as i said your goverment has issues, and they arn't perfect, but its better then a world with out it..
Alimony is rubbish, and not an issue here, as for child support our system, is alot diffrent, much more workable.
Im sorry you had the misfortune of being born in a system that is stacked againyt you, im sorry you have had bad experiences with the system,
But not having a goverment is a much more scary propersition, just look to those places thaT dont have one, push for change, not for revolution.
Thanks for your opinion.
I don't believe in government, and I can't go back into believing in it, just like I can not go back into believing in santa claus.
I'm not for revolution in the sense of overthrowing the system, because it can't be overthrown, not from the outside, not from the inside. It's a religion.
There are more ways it can be done, but deprogramming the faithful believers is one of the best ones. It's hard to find a way to pierce through the years of indoctrination, but it can be done, and more and more are seeing it. So maybe you can call that a revolution, but I call it an evolution of the mind, away from that horrible religion that people are taught to believe.
Cheers :)
Edit; a revolution is just a regime change where the one(s) leading the revolution do not free the people, but just want the power and violence, that government is, for themselves, to sit on the thrown and rule and extort the people themselves for their "good cause".
Its that last part that falls short on the USA side.
Im from Australia, and we have higher tax rates then you guys, but we also have less waste in goverment.
We have very diffrent systems.
Im happy to pay taxs, as the benefits we recive on a whole outways the cost,
I understand that we would spend our money better, but as a pool with millions of others it has more value, or weight. Kinda like steem voting. Your votes worth something, and you know what best to do with it.. but it has a larger impact and better all round result if millions pooled there votes.
So musk lands on mars sets up a colony and ppl flood there, good and bad ones,
They set up Frontier camps and let the setteler go, freemarket will look after you,
they go it alone at first defending them self from the few bad guys out there whom dont want to work for what they have, these indviduals descoverd that if they banded together they could protect them selfs better, from the ever geowing numbers of the "bandits".
then once they all got together, you have a town, then this town decides that they would be better protected by having a full time security force, so the choose some ppl to make laws for this security force to enforce,
the security force needs to be trained and effective to deter these would be bandits, so they dont have time to work any other job then keeping the peace. So they need to be compisated,
So the town leader they chose then ask ppl to help pay for it based appon there means, and if they dont pay they will need to leave the town and the protections it provides,
is this a fair propersition?
Because regardless if the security force didnt provide those who didnt pay for there protection with help, they would still benifit from it, with the increased abillity for private enterprise to flusrish due to the low rate of crime and stababilty of the town?
Whoa! I had no idea it was that bad. According to a report by the Rand corporation that was distributed among congress over the summer, policy makers in several states have begun to explore ways to invent new taxes. Consider the following quote from the Rand report:
"The US highway trust fund is running on fumes, after passage of a short-term extension. As Congress debates a long-term fix, questions remain about how to finance the package in the era in whichthe gas tax is no longer cutting it. To answer these questions, some state and federal policy makers have begun to explore a shift, from taxing fuel, to taxing vehicle miles traveled."
Yes, that's right. Our lawmakers are exploring measures to tax *'vehicle miles traveled.' *
Maybe next they can find ways to tax breaths taken, or tears cried over this out-of-control behemoth of a government.