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Taxes: what do you think of 'em?

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People love to complain about taxes, but guess what? You know that public school our country has? Taxes pay for it. Unemployment benefits to help people between jobs? Taxes pay for it. Every program our government runs, every freaking move the government makes is supported by our taxes. Taxes keep our country running. Of course our tax system is in desperate need of an overhaul, but to say that taxes as an idea are "bad" is ignorant and idiotic.

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. So stop complaining so much.

Most people complain about the taxes, because the tax systems are most likely unfair:

The poorest people are on the harder edge because they pay proportionally more than richer people, who are not so pressured by taxes, since they tend to simply flee from higher taxes.

And some other reasons why it is sometimes better to just burn your money:

"Begging companies" it's an old and usual model: A huge company is making a huge and big plus one year, and a huge big minus another year. The problem is: those companies do not even waste a thought on giving more money than necessary when they made their big scores, but beg for money if they have lost it another year. Guess who! Yes, the state and therefore the taxes and therefore YOUR money, which is missing in the educational and environmental sector again.

"War on whatever" hey, I am just in some sort of a mood, why don't we just go out and bomb some random country? Sounds cool, keeps the people busy and seems to be a hell of a fun, just find a reason, light your cigarettes and kill some people with style. Unfortunately, the military and secret services are the "money eaters" number one. The Iraq and Afghanistan crusade costs every participating invader more than ~2000000000 USD all together, EVERY DAY.

The financial crisis in the USA: Credits to go, were also a big trap for banks from outside of the USA which bought the owes from US-banks, the german government mobilised ~300000000000 € to save the local banks from bankruptcy, which burned their fingers that way. (See "begging companies")