For 45% of you, federal income tax is not an issue. While the fact that you do not pay federal income tax most likely means there are some other pressing issues you are dealing with instead, I wonder if this means that you only concern yourself with taxes every four years during the presidential election cycle. While I think about taxes every single day, I wonder if the prospect of a new president taking office has you just as worried about taxes as me. Naturally, I worry if I am going to have to pay more, while you probably worry about actually having to start.
Oh, and I get that those of you who do not pay federal income tax pay sales tax, local taxes, maybe even property taxes, gas taxes and utility taxes, but the fact remains…those of us who are among the 55% of Americans that pay federal income tax pay all of those taxes, too. The difference is that we pay a federal tax on our income on top of all of those other taxes, and you do not.
For 45% of you, spring must be the most wonderful time of the year. I am sure you can’t wait to file those tax returns and for your “refund” checks to show up in the mail or in your checking account so you can rush out and spend, spend, spend on the stuff you have been waiting all year to buy with that big fat “refund” check.
But for the 55% of us who actually have to pay for the federal government and all of the infrastructure and services it provides to 100% of us, spring actually sucks quite a bit. In addition to the thousands upon thousands of dollars in federal income taxes I have paid over the course of the previous year, each spring I have to come to grips with the fact that I still have to come up with thousands of dollars more to send in to the High Exalted Throne in Taxington DC.
And naturally, this all occurs while I continually hear that I am not paying enough in taxes, most commonly known as “my fair share,” even though my single biggest expense every year is…you guessed it…taxes. And now, even though I was not able to afford college myself, apparently, I still somehow have a duty to pay for college for a much more entitled and deserving generation after me. Why don't I vacation more? Take a look at my tax bill. Why don't I have kids? Take a look at my tax bill. Why don't I give more generously to charity? I already am...take a look at my tax bill. Why do I want to keep more of the money I work hard for? Take a look at my f-ing tax bill!
Liberal and socialist alike - and yes, to me, they are the same group - stand there, scratching their heads and simply cannot figure out why people like me - the 67.2% of idiots in this country who actually participate in the labor force - have grown sick and tired of politicians on both sides of the aisle who lie during election season, spend too much of other people's money and wouldn't know a balanced budget, reasonable and sustainable economic policy, or the reality of the average working American, if it bit them on the ass. I am amazed that they still cannot figure out why we’re sick and tired of all of them. They think we are all racists, or classicists, or warmongers, or gun-nuts, or just genuinely angry, unhappy people. These are the broad brush strokes we are painted with simply because we no longer want to bear the personal financial burden of their entitlement mentality that puts more and more Americans in a position of reliance upon our bloated government for their very existence.
But, the vast majority of us are none of these things. We are just hard working Americans who are sick and tired of being taken advantage of, and sick and tired of being the few who must not only support ourselves, but also those out there who refuse to support themselves.
We know our tax money is used to pay for the military, the police, the fire department, schools, the roads, and all of those similar, great things, but we're tired of it being just some of us, not EVERYONE, who is paying for those things. We're tired of paying for million dollar gas stations in Afghanistan and subsidizing multi-billion-dollar corporations. We're tired of a Taxington DC that cannot reassure us they are not wasting our money. We are tired of hearing about billions in fraud and lost taxpayer money at the same time we are forced to send more money to be wasted for every dollar more we earn. We are tired of being told there won't be as much social security money for us, but still see it stolen from us throughout the year with every paycheck and again at tax time. You want a great example of taxation without representation? How about these social programs all of the liberals and socialists strapped us with, long before we were even born, without ever asking if we wanted to participate in their bullshit Ponzi schemes?
So you bet we're angry. We're not angry about race, equality or who can use what bathroom...we're angry and sick and tired of being forced to accept preferential treatment for those who pay less than we do, and we're angry that this is the country we've inherited from politicians and their ridiculous economic policies that only work in fairy tales.
So, liberals and socialists, keep loading the country up with people who think it is perfectly all right to take more out of the system than they put in all the while bitching at us that we don't put in enough, even though we have never taken a dime back out of that system. Keep telling us that our belief in hard work, actual dollar for dollar fairness, capitalism, and personal responsibility and accountability are just as dated and antiquated as the original principles upon which this country was founded and one day you will find yourself wishing for the days when a rude-mouthed bombastic billionaire was the scariest challenger we could muster to your efforts to seat a completely undeserving, self-serving, crooked liar in the Oval Office.
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