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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Rekna
Cynthetiq I find your logic that you don't want to pay for someone else a bit hypocritical. Do you realize many of the things you have today are paid for by people other than yourself? For example, fire, police, military, roads, bridges, utility lines, ect. There are people who make a lot more money in this world that pay a whole lot more in taxes that you do and I bet many of them aren't happy about it. Are you thankful that they provide for you? Are you only willing to receive from others but not give? If you really don't want people to pay for other people we better change over to a flat tax that is much higher than you are paying now that way everyone pays equally.
And they don't (unless a San Franciscan is unlucky enough to get a speeding ticket in Seatle).
Police funding is local not federal.
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Did they? Did they leave me huge deficits to pay for the roads and infrastructure?
No they didn't. Roads are constantly rebuilt and refreshed via current taxes. Gasoline tax 9/10 at the end is federal taxes, the rest of the embedded taxes pay for other things. My license tags are revenue that goes to paying for the roads, bridges.
For the utlity lines:
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The federal telephone excise tax is a statutory Federal Excise Tax imposed under the Internal Revenue Code in the United States under 26 U.S.C. § 4251 on amounts paid for certain "communications services." The tax was to be imposed on the person paying for the communications services (such as a customer of a telephone company) but, under 26 U.S.C. § 4291, is collected from the customer by the "person receiving any payment for facilities or services" on which the tax is imposed (i.e., is collected by the telephone company, which files a quarterly Form 720 excise return and forwards the tax to the Internal Revenue Service).
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Also those things are raised initial fund via municipal bonds people then INVEST in their local city and infrastructure and in return get a profit in the future. They aren't doing it because they want their grand kids to have better highways and byways.
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