Foxboy Wrote:We ARE the least-taxed first-world nation, precisely because we have idiots who think the old revolutionary slogan of "no taxation without representation" means "NOOOO! NO TAXES EVAR!"
Well... if you wait until the IMF has to bail you out, you'll be forced to change that. (Better to change that without being forced.)
Foxboy Wrote:And let's not forget that that is merely our FEDERAL taxes. Our State and Local taxes can be staggering. New Hampshire is famous for no statewide sales tax and no income tax, but the property taxes are NASTY, because the local polities need to rely on them for all of their funding.Ouch.
Although Glidergun's chart says it includes state and local taxes...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012