America's last hope was Ron Paul
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Yup. Virtually everything is taxed, and taxed more than once by the time it ends up in the consumer's hand.
It's one of the biggest scams in history, but people just accept it.
I assure you, some of us have hated it since our first part time job and we saw what they were taking from us.
It's criminal in my opinion. They wonder why the economy is stagnant, well how about taxing money when it's used and not when it's earned. If you tax it when it's earned you didn't contribute anything to the economy by spending it. Now you have less money so you spend less and are more thrifty. It's a self fulfilling prophecy
That's why the government doesn't want you to save. They want you to spend so its taxes, then the next guy spends it so it is taxed again until that dollar is basically taxed out of existence.
The money is issued at the top and sucked out at the bottom. And then people blame "capitalism" for wealth inequality. If you look at the system as a whole, taxes are an essential way of making sure that regular people don't save anything. If they did, they might not work for 45+ years, and that would not be so good for "the economy"