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1 – The U.S. tax code is now 3.8 million words long. If you took all of William Shakespeare’s works and collected them together, the entire collection would only be about 900,000 words long.
2 – According to the National Taxpayers Union, U.S. taxpayers spend more than 7.6 billion hours complying with federal tax requirements. Imagine what our society would look like if all that time was spent on more economically profitable activities.
3 – 75 years ago, the instructions for Form 1040 were two pages long. Today, they are 189 pages long.
4 – There have been 4,428 changes to the tax code over the last decade. It is incredibly costly to change tax software, tax manuals and tax instruction booklets for all of those changes.
5 – According to the National Taxpayers Union, the IRS currently has 1,999different publications, forms, and instruction sheets that you can download from the IRS website.
16 – Sadly, as Bill Whittle has shown, you could take every single penny that every American earns above $250,000 and it would only fund about 38 percent of the federal budget.
Originally posted by sicksonezer0
But I thought america was the greatest country on earth?
Taxes, and the central government corporation is out of control. I read somewhere that over half of the income tax we pay goes directly to military spending.
Originally posted by navy_vet_stg3
This speaks volumes. Looks like it's time to start making cuts in the federal budget!
16 – Sadly, as Bill Whittle has shown, you could take every single penny that every American earns above $250,000 and it would only fund about 38 percent of the federal budget.
Originally posted by Germanicus
The thing these 'Job Creators' dont want us to know is that we collectively have more than enough money to break them. We can break them if only we could take back our governments.
We are not beholden to them but they to us. We dont need them,they need us.
We need to stop allowing them to plunder/steal our taxes if nothing else.
And we need to take back control of our marketplaces and remind them that it is their privilege to be able to do business in them.
And no more millionaire/billionaire bailouts. No more taxpayer money spent on their Imperial schemes like the IMF, NATO , UN , Foriegn Aid.
We need to change our mindsets and we should all be furious.
edit on 12-4-2012 by Germanicus because: (no reason given)edit on 12-4-2012 by Germanicus because: (no reason given)