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Originally Posted by icenine
Maybe I paid about 2 thousand in property tax
Maybe $350 for both cars registration fees
still way under 33%
I mean I could add up all the fuel taxes and sales tax but why bother...life is too short.
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Kind of goes to my original point. It wasn't an exact figure i was trying to but on it, but they keep adding taxes here and there and people don't even realize it or care. I could throw auto insurance in as a tax since it is government mandated and I didn't toss that figure in under medical premiums. The whole premise is that taxes and insurance, whether you feel they are good or bad, are killing the middle class because it is such a huge chunk of their income. Life may be too short for you to add up fuel taxes, but at 75 cents/gallon in my state, that adds up to a pretty significant chunk of change annually.
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Originally Posted by icenine
Plus homeowners get a tax subsidy and itemize on top of everything else.....so it is not like we are totally raped....
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Some of us get raped. I don't get to write off Washington sales tax to the Fed because I write off my Oregon income tax.
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Originally Posted by BlueStreak
Except most of those other taxes and fees are based on usage. The more crap you have, and the higher value it has, the more you pay. Lower income generally means you have less crap of lower value and therefore pay less. Unless, of course you are living way beyond your means....................
Dave
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Depends on where you live. Some states base auto registration on the value of the vehicle, others have a standardized fee. When I lived in Oregon, I paid registration every two years and it was less than half the cost of registering here in WA where we do it annually.
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Originally Posted by Oerets
Do we not reap returns from the taxes paid? Nothing in life is free after all. But once money makes it into ones pocket the harder it is to take out again.
My only grip is the lack of an independent nonpartisan oversight of our tax dollars spent.
Barney
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I agree. If I thought the money was being spent wisely, I wouldn't have as much of a problem. I just know there is a lot of waste in all areas of government and rather than budget wisely, they would prefer to just take more from us.