You’ve explained the need for taxes so well. Always my argument… I don’t have children, and yet I will gladly pay taxes to have an Educated populace! Love the graphics…so very helpful!
Ah, yes... thank you, Redistribute Ronnie for taxing my Social Security check hailing your trickle-down fiasco. He was a lousy actor, too.
The liars of the Right did a great job of portraying Government Waste and corruption - The Welfare Queen immediately come to mind - while hiding the fact that the *real* welfare queens are their corporate cronies and billionaire benefactors. Sadly, the Democrats have never been very good at exposing or refuting this.
People also blame the IRS for tax problems - not understanding the the IRS doesn't write the Tax Code - Congress does - and they merely apply the rules Congress creates - the reason Irresponsible Republicans underfund them. Less people and funds means less ability to go after the big cheats - the aforementioned corporate cronies and billionaire benefactors who claim their billion dollar yachts as a business expense - while nailing the little guy who claimed his cold water flat as a home office.
It is all about fairness - and our current Tax Code is very unfair.
It IS all about fairness. And we really need a legitimately progressive tax structure, plus more money paid into the coffers by businesses.
From what I understand, since getting more enforcement money, the IRS has collected more than $1 Billion (with a B) from tax cheats.
It always bugs me though that most people have no idea how much they pay in income taxes, because they cannot do math. They often assume that their marginal rate is the rate they pay.
You’ve explained the need for taxes so well. Always my argument… I don’t have children, and yet I will gladly pay taxes to have an Educated populace! Love the graphics…so very helpful!
Thanks, Tina. I always struggle with the battle between "too little" and "too much" information.
Ah, yes... thank you, Redistribute Ronnie for taxing my Social Security check hailing your trickle-down fiasco. He was a lousy actor, too.
The liars of the Right did a great job of portraying Government Waste and corruption - The Welfare Queen immediately come to mind - while hiding the fact that the *real* welfare queens are their corporate cronies and billionaire benefactors. Sadly, the Democrats have never been very good at exposing or refuting this.
People also blame the IRS for tax problems - not understanding the the IRS doesn't write the Tax Code - Congress does - and they merely apply the rules Congress creates - the reason Irresponsible Republicans underfund them. Less people and funds means less ability to go after the big cheats - the aforementioned corporate cronies and billionaire benefactors who claim their billion dollar yachts as a business expense - while nailing the little guy who claimed his cold water flat as a home office.
It is all about fairness - and our current Tax Code is very unfair.
It IS all about fairness. And we really need a legitimately progressive tax structure, plus more money paid into the coffers by businesses.
From what I understand, since getting more enforcement money, the IRS has collected more than $1 Billion (with a B) from tax cheats.
It always bugs me though that most people have no idea how much they pay in income taxes, because they cannot do math. They often assume that their marginal rate is the rate they pay.