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Originally Posted by Squirrelinabox
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. |
I'm definitely not anti-government. But I am against our foreign policies that have we've mantained for the last 100 years or so. We're killing a lot of people and spending trillions on doing so. Maybe if killing them was free I would reconsider, but it's not.
Basically I can't justify paying taxes that are then used to overthrow a government in El Salvador, because we have enough problems of our own back home.
Regarting VAT, it's state and city based. Here in NYC there's an 8% VAT, so don't say we don't have it.