According to a story in CNNMoney republished on Yahoo Finance today is Tax Freedom Day, the day when the average American has earned enough to pay all of his or her local, state, and federal taxes.
Well, I don't like paying taxes either, but I don't like paying insurance premiums, car repair bills, and many, many other bills. So where is Insurance Premium Freedom Day, when the average American has earned enough to pay all the premiums for life insurance, mortgage insurance, house insurance, auto insurance, and here's the biggie, health insurance? And none of these have deductions according to charitable donations, dependent exemptions, or variable rates according to type of income, like dividends or capital gains.
"Tax Freedom Day" is another misdirection that treats taxes as something imposed by a non-representative government to support an idle noble class and foreign wars.
Maybe we should create a non-tax state for those who want to abolish taxes. Oh, we can't do that, they'll never get representation in the Federal Government because they won't pay taxes for the salaries of Senators and Representatives. If volunteers serve, won't that be a tax on the volunteers? If the citizens of the non-tax state take up a collection to pay these salaries, won't it be a tax on those who want representation?
As I've said before, you will always pay taxes, it's just a question of to whom.
