“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
Yea, that woman has vision, alright.
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“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
Yea, that woman has vision, alright.
© 2012 Lisa Sabin-Wilson. Powered by WordPress, Yoga & Espresso. ~ I Pink'd and Tumbl'd Orman Clark's Premium Pixels Theme
I get the impression that one of the main reasons people in the US vote for repiblicans is to pay less tax. Personally I’d be happy to pay more tax if the money was being used for good causes (healthcare for example, which is free in the UK)
Tim, how much of a percentage of your hard earned income would you be willing to pay? 50%? 60%? 70%? More?
How much of a percentage do you currently pay in the UK?
Here – it’s about 33% – - so I’m able to keep roughly 67% of my earned income.
Or thereabouts.
33% sounds like a lot, but I’d guess that we pay more in the UK. It’s difficult to know how much tax people pay here though as income tax is in “bands” depending on how much you earn (you get a certain amount tax free, then the next £x p.a. you pay x% on, then if you earn over another limit you pay a greater amount on that amount etc.) – but we also have VAT (value added tax, where tax is added to pretty much everything you buy).
I’d like to have a better idea what this govermnent income is being spent on though.
Your VAT is equal to our Sales Tax, which is over an above income tax. Sales Tax here varies from state to state. In my state – we pay 5.6% tax on everything we buy.
We also pay extra tax on cars.
There is the death tax.
The estate tax.
Dont’ forget State taxes on TOP of federal taxes.
I’m sure there must be some publication, somewhere, that itemizes out exactly what percentage of my tax dollars are going where? That would be a report I would love to recieve in every paycheck.
VAT in the UK is 17.5%! It’s not on everything though (food for example).
We pay a fortune for petrol (gas that is) and tobacco and alcohol are heavily taxed.
I expect the details of what goes where are available somewhere, but most people wouldn’t have a clue where to look.
17.5%?
Spanking kids, aside – I’m re-thinking my move! lol
The reason we’re left with shitty social services is because the damn Republicans keep spending the money on their pork projects or just fucking giving it to Halliburton. Take a look at thisand you’ll know what the US has high taxes. It’s fucking insane!
http://action.truemajority.org/ctt.asp?u=148624&l=275
and here I thought that the shitty social services and lack of funding for such services had more to do with the ongoing and blantant abuse of the system at the hands of some of the recipients.
*shrug*