i have been reading all this and it makes me wonder how you would pay for
what services you complain about?
i don't like the current system either. Please show me a better
one................
Pete
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:21:18 -0500, Lester <oldsaabguy at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> ..and then there is the employer...
>
> A self employed person pays DOUBLE for FICA deductions on themselves
> (An employee pays half and the employer pays half usually) and then they
> have to buy office furniture. so..
>
> If I buy the furniture then I am paying a sales tax. Then at the end of
> the year I pay the City tax BECAUSE I OWN THE FURNITURE.... and I pay
> the Parish tax BECAUSE I OWN THE FURNITURE. I then repeatedly pay the
> city and parish tax because I own furniture that I already had to pay
> sales tax on. In New Orleans, they tax you for owning a car, every year!
>
> Lester
>
> On Mar 3, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Robert Duquette wrote:
>
>>>> It's easier than raising taxes.
>>
>> Really? Think about what happens to a dollar that you earn.
>> If you're an employee, there is a tax deduction at source.If you save
>> what's
>> left and earn interest, the interest is taxed.If you spend the money,
>> you pay
>> sales tax.If you save enough of those after tax dollars, you can buy a
>> house.
>> If you really go on the hook to get into a better neighbourhood, then
>> you get
>> taxed more. Do you get more service? No, you just get to pay more,
>> because
>> they think that you can. ( Income and property taxes seem communist in
>> structure. )
>> Then there's sin taxes on gas, tobacco and booze. ( First they drive
>> you
>> drink with taxes, then tax you heavily on the drink. )
>> You paid taxes to build streets ( and parking ) and then pay to use the
>> parking that you paid to make available.
>> Then the person that you spend the remnants of that dollar to, gets to
>> go
>> through the same process; and then the next; and then the next, etc.
>> When you die there is an estate tax which retaxes the income that you
>> managed
>> to save. You've already paid taxes on it, but you can't give it away.
>> I think it's quite easy to raise taxes. Don't they do it every year
>> where you
>> are? I wish I could do that. "Hey boss, I want to spend more than I'm
>> making
>> now, so you're going to pay me 3% more this year. You can vote me out
>> in 4
>> years, but really, the next guy is just going to do the same thing!"
>> Here's an example of municipal spending in Ottawa.
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/03/02/ottawa-westboro-land.ht
>> ml
>> But, in a nutshell:The city sold some greenspace to a developer for 12.5
>> million.Rezoned the land for them.Now have voted to buy back 1/4 of
>> that land
>> for 11.5 million, 2 years later.It is worth more now, because it is
>> rezoned.
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