Maybe we should be less obsessed with paying as little in the way of taxes as we can and just pay for the needed improvements with taxes.
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IMO this is crazy talk...I'm paying high taxes and don't want to pay more tax to a government that isn't efficient with the current GDP and foot the bill that should be paid for by the industrial engine. The government can't squeeze industry much more or they leave. The real issue in this country is inflation. Inflated wages make it very hard for an American company to compete with foreign manufacturing and raise to he cost of everything we buy. We have tuned into a nation of consumers and not producers for that reason. Our trade agreements are still not favorable, I don't know to fix it but it's not taxes and young people are not lining up to do blue collar factory work. We have become spoiled, sensitive and soft and lazy.
Agree with the taxes. My taxes between Federal, State, and personal property are high enough.
The part about reports that China would gain the full capability to invade Taiwan by 2027 makes it real for this year's class of 2027 and all recent years of midshipmen!!
Although the 2nd part wasn’t on….I’m guessing due to basketball? I’ll check it out on demand tomorrow.
Thoughts, are ‘already know this stuff….wake up’ around our house. And, yes, this is the world my two boys will deal with intimately. And soon.
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I heard it said (paraphrasing) that difficult times make strong men and women; easy, prosperous times make weak men and women. True I think of this country. For my part-eliminating consumption born of habit (ie does every corporate event need a goody bag with cheap Chinese made junk that no one really wants?)-and go with need based consumption. I don’t have the answers either-but people do what they have to do and if they don’t have to do things -they’ll lose that capacity random thoughts here.
LOL. 57% of households have no federal tax liability, maybe we need to spread that love around a little bit and get some more participation in our Republic. I am paying enough already. FY 23 tax receipts are estimated to hit $4.7T and the Feds can’t even remotely make that work towards a balanced budget…it might help if DC could manage money a little better.
We need to audit where the money is going - military and fed reserve included.
Yes there are always excuses.
Feel free to send more money to the US Treasury if you like. I paid just north of $80k in Federal Tax in 2021, so thinking I have done my fair share. Do you have a tax obligation, or are you just keen to spend other people’s money?
I have a tax obligation. But many who make a lot more than I do pay less than their fair share. If we want a robust military, we need revenue from somwhere. Tax the rich and the corporations. Leave the middle class alone.
If only it were that simple. The US already taxes corporations at among the highest rates in the world. When corporations are taxed, too high, they tend to be less competitive, fail outright or move to a more economical environment. The rich look like a great target but they're already paying the majority of the tax bill already. The media and other advocates do muddy the waters by pointing toward the lower taxes on so-called "passive income" such as dividend but remember that the dividend was ALREADY taxed when it was corporate income so it is double taxation on the same money.