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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ratio411, post: 1056594, member: 26729&quot;]I think what irks people is NOT so much the taxes collected directly from income.</p><p>As was posted, many folks don&#039;t even pay income tax, and many even get wealth redistribution in the name of EIC.</p><p>The problem is all the hidden taxes, taxes on taxes, fees that are taxes by another name, etc, so on...</p><p>Even the fact that when a new dollar is born, only the first user gets a full dollar&#039;s worth of value from said dollar.</p><p>Everyone thereafter that accepts that dollar accepts it at a lower value than the previous holder due to the FIAT situation.</p><p>Inflation is the most insidious and evil tax there is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All this tax on tax, huge amounts of percieved waste and graft, wealth redistribution, and the fact that once a tax is created, even temporary taxes, they NEVER go away.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Did you know that there was a <i>temporary</i> tax put on your phone bill in 1896, to pay for the Spanish-American War?</p><p>Only the extremely rich had phones, and it was supposed to go away in short order... <b>IT IS STILL ON YOUR BILL!</b></p><p>It is listed on your bill as a misc Federal tax.</p><p>This is the sort of thing that breeds contempt for government and taxes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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