Quote Originally Posted by Amanda
Iced-T, if the average worker is done paying their taxes for the year by April, then they are not paying 50% of their income to the government. If they were, it would be late June or early July before Tax Freedom Day would arrive.

We'll never reach a national consensus on the proper cost of government or the proper level of taxation. Most of us have our own thoughts on what spending programs government can do without, but with most of the frequently-cited options such as wiping out federal departments or slashing social service costs, the unforeseen consequences would probably overwhelm any perceived benefit. The same can be said about the left's agenda in the 1990's to strip down the post-Cold War military to a skeleton. It was penny-wise but pound foolish, as we now see in the midst of multiple military engagements.

Like just about everybody, I grumble about my own tax burden. The main reason I decided to give up cigarettes was because I didn't want to be the working-class stooge who disproportionately financed the cost of government while the politically-connected enjoy tax cut after tax cut. Nonetheless, it's difficult to envision a scenario where the tax burden will go down as the population ages, as our defense budget bloats amidst the creation of the worthless Homeland Security Department boondoggle, as we watch our employer-financed health care system limp to its tomb, and as the share of the federal budget allocated for national debt interest rises. People who think taxes are too high now are likely to be in for a huge disappointment. Today's deficit-financed tax cuts are really just deferred tax increases when the debt bill comes due along with its crushing interest costs.
he said a mcdonalds employye paid 50%,and an average worker pays till april