Jus' sayin'...

[ceagle]

Finished my income taxes... at last!

Now, I paid about $3,000 for a)current use of the country b)future use of medicare and c)future use of social security. Looking at it that way, it doesn't seem like too much.

If anything, the taxes which seem too high are Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, and some other Excise taxes and such.
I'd prefer if it was about half the current rates. In fact I think Property Taxes are part of the major barriers to home ownership and part of the housing crisis.
And in Sales Tax, I wouldn't mind if it was sorta like Hawaii and Louisiana (4%) ... but floating around 10% seems a bit high for sales tax ... I remember when it *was* around 5% .. :/

Comments

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

That almost sounds great, since we have BOTH here, AND the sales tax is even Higher (9.25 %).

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

It's not so great in Washington; the sales tax does not provide enough revenue. Washington has had money issues ever since I came here in '97. The way they get things done is through exorbitant gas taxes, but they can only levy those temporarily. Our previous governor actually managed to leave behind a surplus, though-- but the current governor spent more than twice the amount in her first term, so we went from having $5B extra to being $5B in the hole. I would not object to a state income tax, even for a short time, to fix the issues created by our spendthrift government.

-=TK