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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally posted by lurkette
Just out of curiosity, how do tax protesters envision paying for things like defense, federal transportation oversight (road maintenance, regulation of airlines, etc.), etc.? Would corporations be taxed more heavily? Would more duties, and therefore a larger tax burden, be shifted to the states? Seems to me like it would be six of one, half-dozen of the other. We'd still be paying something, either to the states or in higher prices to offset corporate tax burdens. If it didn't come out of our paychecks directly it would come out eventually. What's the difference?
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not all taxes are paid in just income taxes, there are visible taxes like the gas tax, that 9/10th of a penny, the blue sticker on the bottom of cigarettes, are both great examples.
then there is the simple things that you don't think about like sugar tax, which hits things that one doesn't expect like cakes and cookies, all the way up to alcoholic beverages.
While we aren't taxed as much as other countries, you are right it is that six half dozen thingy (i never understand that statement it always confuses me)
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