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Taxes

I may screw up parts of this since I haven't spent years researching it. Since everyone does a shit job explaining this, today's rant is on income taxes. Taxes in general, but mostly income taxes. It's a riveting topic, IRS agents are the life of every party. Some people talk about 'no inland taxes!' but never really explain why they're are so evil. I'm also going to do a lot of rounding. So for the slavers, I mean socialists, feel free to add a few thousand at the end, it won't help. We're going to focus a lot on 'buying power' because that's the only thing that matters. Let's say you make 92592.59 a year because I like easy math. So you'll pay about 14% in federal income taxes plus 8% in FICA taxes for a total of 23%. Add in state taxes and you're probably looking at 27% income tax. But that's a lie. You actually make 100,000 a year because your employer pays the same FICA tax you do and if you're employer couldn't afford to pay that you'd be making even less. So really you're paying 35% income tax on 100,000. Over one third of your money goes towards dismembering children in other countries. I elect to give the government more money just for that important contribution to the world. The last sentence isn't true, but it drives the point home. And the one before that isn't completely true either, a lot of it goes towards important things like NGOs supporting abortion and communism. Both of which have very low fatality rates, ask any historian. Come to think of it planned parenthood in-sourced that stuff, so taxes pay to dismember children here at home too, isn't that great? So you have 65% of the buying power you thought you had on 92592.59. The government, people of great integrity and wisdom, take the rest and use it for whatever. This doesn't even include your roads, electricity, or water as those are paid for directly or with gas taxes.

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Every Tax is a Poor Tax, Plus Extra Ranting

Oh, you thought we were done? You thought the dildo only had 3 speeds and 2 attachments? Boy, get your best gimp suit ready 'cause we just got started. So you think you have 65000 dollars of buying power? Now that you have the money in your hand you need to spend it. And what happens if you dare to spend the money that you worked so hard for? The money that's already been taxed to death? Yeah, it gets taxed AGAIN. And not just sales tax. Conservatively you're paying a 6% sales tax to spend your money depedning on what state and county you live in. That's another 3900 of buying power gone from your 65000. Down to 61000. Almost 40% of your buying power gone. When you buy a $10 pound of meat do you think you're buying $10's worth of meat? In a real economy that's what you would expect. But now the hammer drops. You're not paying $10 for that pound of meat. You're paying 5$ for a pound of meat, plus all the taxes of all the employees, the corporate taxes, the capital gain taxes (if applicable), excise taxes, administrative fees, license fees, property taxes, the taxes of all the employees of the distributer, the corporate tax rate of the distributer, the taxes of the employees of the producer of the meat, their coporate taxes, etc. If the business you're buying from isn't large enough to be annointed by the goverment with a wholesaler license the business has to pay sales tax on those goods as well. Just buying a product from a small business and selling it increases the cost by 12% from just a single tax (stuff like this is why megacorps exist, leftists created them). Some states require you to pay for multiple licenses just to collect sales tax. Finally to juggle all this crap you need to pay an accountant and a laywer to ensure you're not going to trip over the thousands of laws, taxes, or regulations when conducting business. None of this includes the regulatory burden which add even more cost to the product. And every business needs to account for this in the price of their products or there would be no products or business. I've had some small businesses estimate that the taxes, fees, licesnes, and costs of doing business applied by the government account for around 50% of a product's cost. The lowest estimation I could come up with is 25% and this is completely ignoring most of the regulatory burden. So we'll stick with 25% to make the leftist slavers happy. That means if you're so poor you don't think you pay taxes, you're still paying 25% plus 15% in FICA for a total of 40% of your income in taxes. And from our starting 100,000 you have $45750.0 worth of buying power left. I can already hear someone screaming, Muh deductibles! If you dox everything you ever do in your life to the government and run your 4th amendment rights through Stormy Daniels asshole you can loosen your chains just enough to stay in business. Proofreading note, in reflection I don't think that would actually cause any damage beyond minor wrinkling, we'll just stick with "shred your 4th amendment rights" instead. And I've known small business owners where this is exactly the case, if it wasn't for deductibles they wouldn't be able to stay in business, the taxes are just that oppressive. Deductibles also don't apply to every tax, like sales tax, and they don't apply to fees or regulatory burdens incurred. So yes, it lowers the amount of tax paid, and you can slow the bleeding. But the compounding effect from the transactional nature of a lot of taxes makes it a moot point. It's designed to force the creation of megacorps and vertical integration to be competitive. And then we have idiots saying we need more government to fix the problem with more government regulation, and that solves the cause of the problem of regulation and taxes how? A hallmark of socialist slaver manipulation. Highlight a real problem, blame everything except the government that created the problem, demand more government to 'fix' the problem, but really create more problems you can demand more power to fix.

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Money is Finite OR If the Poor Did Not Exist the Government Would Need to Create Them

I hope you didn't think this shit couldn't get worse, because there's a whole extra paragraph here to tell you just how much worse this gets. Imagine if you can an ideal community. A community where almost no one is poor, where all or most of your common goods and food are made by artisans within the community. And what they don't have they trade for with similar communities. A community almost completely free of government manipulation, control, and corruption. The closest thing to perfect freedom and prosperity. What happens to such a community when the government comes in and pulls 50% of the money from the system in not just a single year, but every year? It literally cannot exist. Money is finite. It is zero sum. If the money isn't replaced by the government in some other way the community will fail. After just two years how are people going to pay anyone with just 25% of the money left? This only applies to money in transit for that year, any reserve of funds will obviously not be taxed during this time and the percentage of money leaving the community will likely be much lower, but the effect compounds. Trade can help make up the difference and sustain the community, but then the communities that are making up the difference will fail twice as fast. The government will continue to pull money from people until there's enough poor people dependent on government money to make up the difference. Is your community so successful it doesn't need the government? Don't worry, they'll fix that. As we've covered earlier infrastructure and utilities are paid for with specific taxes or paid for directly. Other taxes are just slush funds that can be embezzled or misused in any way the corrupt officials want. Taxes are supposed be for a very specific purpose, ended when that purpose is fulfilled, and not allocated however politicians want for these reasons. Even if you somehow manage to solve this problem by-the-numbers it doesn't solve the issues of government corruption. The government almost always uses it's power to determine winners and losers. Some of the major tech companies are a prime example of this. Once the government has control of your economy they can force you to implement certain services or programs or even to change your laws or they'll withhold the funding keeping your community afloat. The federal government has done this on multiple occasions to the states, where if they didn't change their laws they would lose critical funding like highway maintenance funds. I think even the most communist in the law community would admit this was illegal but they did it anyway and there were no repercussions. So your people are forced to bleed a ridiculous amount of money to the federal government every year and they can just decide to not give a chunk of it back. It's a reason why homeschoolers didn't want government funded vouchers for schooling. 10 years down the road when all those organizations are fat and bloated on government money they'll start attaching 'common sense' stipulations to it. Like force them to start pushing LGBT crap, subversive communist ideas, or DEI hiring bullshit. If they don't they'll become ineligible for government vouchers. They'll have the option to change their curriculum or fire 80% of their workforce and downsize. Most of their students will be forced to leave as the vouchers also drove the price of education up and likely beyond the reach of the poor and lower class. Kind of went of the rails a bit, don't have a good conclusion. FIN

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Thanks, now I have to untangle my headphone cable.