We Are All Beggars Here
So, i feel kosher sharing a little bit of my personal math. I did the math yesterday (which is rare that i would “do” math because numbers and i are not on civil terms) and figured out how much i was being taxed vs how much i am earning. I did seperate state and federal, and for federal i figured the numbers for IRS, Med, and SS. I tell you this so you know what all i included in my figures. It was pretty easy to manage because i make $26,000 a year. Exactly. It’s nice because getting paid every two weeks makes that precisely 26 pay checks for $1,000. Let me say this post is not me complaining or lauding my wages we can leave that for later. :)~ The issue here is that my total tax is 28.036% of what i earn. Which means with every pay check i contribute $280.36 to the government in some form or another. Once again not too shocking until an annual total is brought up. The figure annually is $7,289.36, which takes my Annual income to $18,710.64. Once again no complaining about what i earn. What i want to ask is am i getting my $7,289.36 worth from the government, because they are sure getting it from me. Further more, is the $7,289.36 they are taking from me going to something that i deem fair, or should it? Do i have a say in how my tax dollars are spent or do i just have a vote for who represents me? i still say i do not have taxation with fair representation because never, and i mean literally never, has anyone i have voted for been elected. They take from me with someone’s approval whom i do not approve of, the solution can not be to move because this would happen in other countries as well. I have written the government (state and federal) letters asking for them to send me a breakdown of where my tax money has gone. What did i get you might ask? Well from the fed i didn’t get a thing, from the CO government i got a letter saying that i had forgotten to file my taxes for fiscal year 2004. I honestly don’t know if i did or not, i found my Fed tax info from that year but not state and i may not have done it. Here’s the kicker though, they say i owe them back taxes; i plainly asked them, because i always have, was i due a refund for that year? They said yes i would have received a refund if i would have filed but by not filing i incurred a penalty (which wasn’t enough to eat the entire refund i find out later) and that each year i did not make restitution on the interest and filing i would owe them more and more. I asked why they are telling me now instead of in 2005 when i should have filed, their answer, the statute of limiations is running out for them to notify me. So they took too much money and didn’t notify me i didn’t file and i considered their debt to me as settled because they didn’t tell me. Then after i send them a letter asking them to detail how my tax dollars are spent i get notice that i didn’t pay taxes one year and that my abundence is now my deficit. And maybe the ultimate kicker, all my correspondence is with government employees that i help fund by paying state sales tax. The swear words that come to mind are vile and profuse. I pay too much, then have someone i also pay tell me that because i didn’t collect a debt owed to me that now i owe a debt to them - and i still have not received my breakdown of where my money goes from the state or the feds. Something is seriously broken. Someone else sound off cause i need group anger on this one.
