If the USA would tax churches at the rate it taxes business it would pay for food stamps for everyone on welfare with enough left over to house their entire homeless population. But they have to buy flying turds like the F-22 and F-35.
It all depends on WHAT is being taxed and WHEN. When IRA (Individual Retirement Accounts) accounts were first being offered in 1974 I started one. It seemed a good way to save for retirement, even for a 20-something, as I was at the time. I don’t understand the DEMAND that I withdraw funds from my account every year through an RMD (Required Minimum Distribution) – added to tax law in 2019. This distribution is taxed – I always knew that anything I withdrew from my Traditional IRA would be taxed – but that I would be forced to withdraw was quite an unwelcome surprise.
Ratkin Premium Member over 2 years ago
Right. Who needs roads, military, teachers, police, firefighters, jails, water systems, and the Internet, anyway.
C over 2 years ago
No one does. Give an inch, gov’t takes a mile. Taxes are necessary but grotesquely inflated.
The Reader Premium Member over 2 years ago
Seeing as how they just print as much money as they feel like, why have taxes at all?
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 2 years ago
I think Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. had the correct take on this.
blackman2732 over 2 years ago
Give me liberty or give me bacon!
My First Premium Member over 2 years ago
Especially in democratic controlled cities and states.
Bill The Nuke over 2 years ago
Representation? We have representation?
Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago
If the USA would tax churches at the rate it taxes business it would pay for food stamps for everyone on welfare with enough left over to house their entire homeless population. But they have to buy flying turds like the F-22 and F-35.
mpolo11 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Misrepresentation.
PaleoCon over 2 years ago
The real issue in much of this nation is: “Representation without Taxation”!
LrdSlvrhnd over 2 years ago
The problem is our so-called representation doesn’t represent us but instead their corporate sponsors.
LeftCoastBoomer Premium Member over 2 years ago
It all depends on WHAT is being taxed and WHEN. When IRA (Individual Retirement Accounts) accounts were first being offered in 1974 I started one. It seemed a good way to save for retirement, even for a 20-something, as I was at the time. I don’t understand the DEMAND that I withdraw funds from my account every year through an RMD (Required Minimum Distribution) – added to tax law in 2019. This distribution is taxed – I always knew that anything I withdrew from my Traditional IRA would be taxed – but that I would be forced to withdraw was quite an unwelcome surprise.