ROFLMNAO!
Dumbass... Your graph speaks to income taxes. Income tax on shit-for-income is MEANINGLESS.
Sales tax, excise tax, fuel tax, property tax, communication taxes... taxes of an ENDLESS variety.
There is not a single middle class human being who SPENDS MONEY in this country who does not have
THE MAJORITY OF
THEIR EARNINGS SEPARATED FROM THEM BY TAXATION!
And THAT is due to the EVER INCREASING COST OF GOVERNMENT! Do yourself a favor and take a gander at your cellphone bill... Dial out the taxes you pay on that ALONE.
That should help ya through this.
Now back to the point you sought to avoid:
Taxation, due to the cost of sustaining the US Federal, State and Local Government has forced
both adults to work. Because the monies stripped from their earnings through all taxation, now consumes more than 50% of each earners check. Now this is a very complex calculus... but extrapolate from the data, what happens when two people are at issue; wherein one person used to earn 100%, but today that one person nets half as much as one person used to earn.
(Recall, that you're solving for: "Why do both people in a Union of one man and one woman now need to work, where BEFORE only ONE PERSON WAS REQUIRED?")
GO!
Go ahead. Post some evidence.
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!
Your concession is duly noted and summarily accepted.
(The Reader should recognize that the would-be 'contributor', cited above is incapable of recognizing what a human being with the qualities of EXISTING, MUST RECOGNIZED, wherein they earn a living, the earning so which ARE TAXED and subsequently BUY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, SUCH AS FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER WHICH ARE TAXED, LIVING ON PROPERTY WHICH IS TAXED, USE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, CONSUME FUEL, WHICH ARE TAXED... and so on and so forth, throughout every single facet of their entirely taxed LIFE.
As I have noted many times, what we're witnessing in the position advanced above, presents as
an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder; OKA:
Delusion.)
You haven't posted one shred of evidence to support your claim.
Here's more to support mine:
State and local tax burdens, 1977 to 2011.
As you will see in the rates at the left in the charts, the rates have not gone up.
State and Local Tax Burdens All Years One State 1977 - 2011 Tax Foundation
OH! A re-concession?
That's mighty sweet of ya... .
Your re-concession is duly noted and summarily accepted.
Hmm... So the premise is that Federal, State and Local governments are lowering taxes?
Oh now THAT is
FASCINATIN'!
Now what local and state governments are lowering taxes?
Leftists? That's an odd premise to stand upon, given that this very thread is a discussion of a Leftists, who one of your own just proclaimed was a person who was 'willing to raise taxes on her own income', using that as evidence of her 'willingness to help the poor. As if taxing her income, in ANY WAY 'helped' the poor.
I'll ask the reader to think about the recent past within their own region. Are your school boards filling your local coffers with cash? Or are they demanding greater taxes to build schools to alleviate burgeoning classrooms?
Is the Highway Department pushing money back into the county and state accounts or are they screaming that the pot holes and congested roads require that they need more money and asking for more taxation to pay for those road. You utilities... private companies enjoying quasi-government status... are they sending you discounts or chronically going to your state legislature demanding rate increases? When is the last time your state EVEN DEBATED a proposal to LOWER YOUR STATE SALES TAX AND/OR INCOME TAX? If you recall such a proposal, who was it made the proposal? Were they people who were known to that point to be representative of ideas that government should be as small possible, and less intrusive, or were they Leftist?
Has your Cell bill or Cable bill come down because of the MASSIVE TAXATION on those serves were lowered?
In fact, taxation in the US is the result of greed... it is what fuels THE IDEOLOGICAL LEFT. It is their source of power, it promotes their means to influence their stock in trade: THE POOR!
Assertions that Taxation AT ANY LEVEL has been reduced on any meaningful scale, is LUDICROUS...
So... based upon your OWN EXPERIENCE... you should recognize that position being advanced that stands upon nothing short of that ludicrous premise, is nothing short of delusion.
Now, it is entirely possible that the contributor does NOT believe that overall taxation is less today than it was at some point in the past. At which point the contributor is attempting to DECEIVE YOU.
So you've two choices here. Either the contributor is advising you based upon
an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder: OKA:
Delusion.
OR...
The contributor is advising you of that which they know to be false, as truth.
And this we know because of the reality that is YOUR EXPERIENCE. So it comes down to what you trust most... Your REALITY... or a conclusion drawn from a perverse sense of reason, which takes data specific to narrowly defined attributes and represents them as an accurate representation of the whole.)
