Americans pay the LEAST taxes per capita of any first-world country. I remember back when Obama signed off on extending the Bush tax cuts as part of some deal to try to get his health care thing passed and I went:
"Oh... kay? Um, how were we gonna PAY for that health care package, Barry? I'm not gonna complain about having extra in my take-home, but, like, didn't you guys muck around with the interest while you held on to it for me between taking it out of my check and giving it back at tax return times?"
Sorry, the tax thing makes me think of a darker side to the Tea Party's appropriation of some of our revolutionary slogans:
"No Taxation without Representation!" leading to... "You don't pay taxes (because we cut them all), so we don't gotta represent you."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
"Oh... kay? Um, how were we gonna PAY for that health care package, Barry? I'm not gonna complain about having extra in my take-home, but, like, didn't you guys muck around with the interest while you held on to it for me between taking it out of my check and giving it back at tax return times?"
Sorry, the tax thing makes me think of a darker side to the Tea Party's appropriation of some of our revolutionary slogans:
"No Taxation without Representation!" leading to... "You don't pay taxes (because we cut them all), so we don't gotta represent you."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll