Fact: There is no honour in claiming to be a “tax-paying citizen”. We, are being, SCREWED.
If you look at the average corporation in the USA or Canada it might be reasonable to assume that they all pay roughly the same amount of taxes, relative to their statuses and yearly income levels etc etc blah blah. Am I right? Either way, the average of the ‘big boys’ pays on paper somewhere around 30-40% income tax. The sources of that statistic all seem fairly close to each other, so I’m going to assume it’s pretty accurate. The loopholes they use to get down into that percentage spread is hilarious, and then there are the loopholes and book-doctoring that gets some of them even lower.
To put this in a better way, it’s safe to say that mega-corporations who play the trendy politics games (like GE for example – Hi Al Gore and the Global Warming Crusaders!) find ways to pay a stupidly small amount of income tax, relative to their enormous profits. While the rest of us ‘great unwashed’ take up the slack with the lop-side flopping the other direction now. Oh it’s great to be a workin’ stiff!
Income tax, as it is now, always was and always will be, is legalized theft by the government inflicted on the sheep. When politicians and their families and cronies can get away with dodging millions of dollars in taxes, when huge multinational mega-corporations can evade taxes to the extent of nearly paying zero taxes, when the tax filing systems are so confusing to work through and seem only designed to guarantee a certain percentage of “misfiled taxes” resulting in reviews and audits and subsequent fines and interests being levied, when the average “Joe” is no longer raked over the fucking coals and penalized up his ASS for making honest mistakes during the handling of this convoluted tax management system each year that no one is ever fucking taught how to USE in school!!!!!!!…………when all this shit and so much more goes on, how can we believe taxes are anything BUT a legalized theft by the government?
I’ll say one thing I’d stake my life on. We, the people…..the sheeple…….need to get better with our money. We have got to get a better handle (as a whole – I know there are shining stars out there) on how taxes work and we prepare our files each year. We have got to stop digging ourselves deeper into debt. You don’t NEED another fucking ipad that likely costs more than you make in a day, so here’s an idea, put the credit card away! You don’t pay with cash anymore, you say. Besides you can “pay that off in 2 months”. You’re insane then. Here is a reality check…..this might sting. If you can’t pay cash for something as cheap as an ipad, you are in no position to buy one using credit. Transportation and housing are different….yes, we borrow for those. But if your income level forbids you to pay cash for something like an ipad, you do not make enough money to buy something like that on credit that you absolutely do NOT need. Also, if you do everything with a debit card or credit card and never use “money” – that worthless paper we carry around – you are in for a huge surprise my friend. In fact, if you can’t think of reasons why you need to start going back to cash……you’re on your own.
People, WAKE UP!!
You don’t NEED another iphone or ipad or iTV or ithis or ithat. You don’t NEED yet another bluetooth device at home or in your car……that allow “others” to listen to, monitor and record your conversations……..you don’t NEED that disposable “SMART TV”……a word of advice, never trust ANY device that has the name “SMART” in it. IT IS SPYING ON YOU.
http://www.infowars.com/mainstream-media-finally-admits-televisions-can-spy-on-you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruISPwb_BvM reference to SMART Meters . Some guy put this together but his take on the situation is very accurate.