This is the best question in the world to ask, as we pay
more and more taxes, our politicians and officials just spend more and more and
asks for more and more. I remember an interview with a very liberal politician
I was watching on the TV, they were talking about where the money going to come
from for all these new entitlements the liberals wanted to implement. The
interviewer made the statement that the government didn’t have enough money to
implement and maintain these new entitlement programs, to which the liberal
politician stated, “We have plenty of money, we just haven’t taken it from the
people yet.” When a government official thinks your money belongs to the
government, this is a sign of tyranny. If you add it up, we pay more in taxes
than most people realize.
For this example we will use Oakland California. In Oakland
California your Federal Tax Rate can be up to 39.6 %, California State Tax is
7.5 %, Oakland City Tax is 9.5%, Social Security Tax is 6.2%, FICA Tax is
6.2%, and Medicare Tax is 1.45%. In Oakland California, with the current taxes,
for every $1.00 you make, you may only take home $0.44; over half your hard
working dollar goes to taxes. Remember, this isn’t even counting sales tax,
local tax, tag tax, property tax which in Oakland. Sales Tax is another 10%, Property
Tax is 1.4376%, and Vehicle Tax is 8.75% every year which would leave you with $0.37
cents of the original $1.00 you started with. California is a great example of
tyranny. What is killing our country and its jobs is this tyranny by our
liberal government, it forces the average person to make $2.70 of their original dollar just to break
even. If you times the cost of all US products by 2.7 you can see one reason
why we can't compete with other countries. Once again remember, this isn’t
including all the taxes the businesses have to pay.
If you run a business in the US, our politicians are sucking
the life out of you as well. A business with Federal, State, and Local Taxes
can pay up to 47% on every dollar made, this isn’t including the 15.3% payroll tax.
Add another 12.4% for Social Security and up to 3.8% for Medicare, I wonder why
especially our small businesses are having so many problems. If you add it up
the same way, for every dollar made, the business only makes $0.22 cents. This
means to break even they must make $4.55; the average across
the world is 21% so why is ours over doubled? This is why businesses are
leaving America for other places. You hear about these businesses moving to
British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Island and you wonder why, they have a 0%
business tax. Compound this with large companies like GE who donate to the
liberal political establishment not paying a dime in taxes while every mom and
pop small business gets hammered.
The spending of our taxes upset me as well. You always hear
about the discretionary funding but never the non-discretionary funding, when
you join the two you will see what is killing us as a country. The liberal
press spreads that military spend makes up 57% of all spending when the
Department of Defense only gets 16%. On top of this, the military is mandated
by congress to spend most of it in specific ways which does not allow the
military to get the best bang for the buck. We lost many soldiers in
Afghanistan because the military was forced to buy equipment of substandard
quality for a political favor. The military was forced to buy Bio-Jet fuel as
well which costs $59 per gallon instead of JP-8 which cost $3.62 per gallon;
the kicker is the Bio-Jet fuel makes the jets performance substandard. Something
is still off, the DoD budget is $495.6 Billion, the presidents total spending
is budgeted for $6.2 Trillion in spending, simple math tells you this isn’t the
57% or even the 16%, it adds up to just under 8%. The liberal news media and
politicians are only off by 86%. Liberal politicians don’t care about the
troops, they only care about their pocket book and getting reelected. Another
staggering statistic is why we are not using our taxes to protect our country
and citizens, we are using 69% of our budget for the lazy citizens and the
illegal aliens in the form of Entitlements.
Then you have the liberal "lie about anything" and "I’m above
the law" attitude. Our tax money has been sent to countries that want to kill us
and still believe in slavery; why? We send hundreds of billions of our tax
money to countries who give it to Islamic Radicals and I don’t understand why. They
lie about everything and the liberals back them up because negotiations always
works. We give more aid to the Pakistan who are a supporter of terrorism then
we do to Israel or Egypt who are our allies. The liberals lie about all this
but worse is our US citizens who think they are above the law. When you can
have the head of the agency collecting all our taxes purposely and methodically
target political opponents with no action taken by the Justice Department, you
know the new name is truly the “Injustice Department.” When an agency can
target a person, a business, and even a church because they support the other
side, they should be jailed for life. When they can do it with impunity and
cover from the Justice Department and President, this shows our country is in a
grave situation. Everything this country was built on, no person being above
the law and all created equal is now out the door.