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Originally Posted by stanley
The problem is we assume more debt per capita than almost any other country in the world. Our defense bugdget is MULTIPLE times more than anything else we spend money on. Does US really need to have 14 permanent military bases in Iraq, a huge base in Saudi Arabia, and several more in Qatar and UAE? How does that help our citizens? We barely even get any oil from Saudi Arabia, and yet we've kept thousands of soldiers stationed there for decades. This is costing us billions a year.
Not to mention the tax % deducted from your paycheck is significantly higher in US than in other countries.
Anyone who expects the government to regulate itself is definitely ignorant of history.
Maybe the tax system shouldn't be shut down, but there's currently nothing differentiating America from past imperial nations.
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Uh... ok.. that has nothing to do with this topic at all. Whether or not you feel the United States is over extended militarily. You obviously have strong opinions as to our use of our military, which, yes, does affect taxes. But, again, that's not what's on the table in this thread. Also, whether or not you think the US is an imperial nation and whether or not that's a bad thing is also something that has nothing to do with the issue of whether or not people should be paying their income taxes.
Also, if you look at the global taxes
Tax rates around the world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia you can see that the US is not grossly over taxing individuals. And like it was said previously, we have not VAT.
You are clearly anti government, or at least this government, but this issue is specifically income taxes.