What do you hate most about taxes?
By“Tax season always begins on April 16th, and ends 365 days later.”
“There are only two certainties in this life: death and taxes. I’m thinking I’ll have better luck cheating death.”
“When there’s a single thief, it’s robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it’s taxation.” ~Vanya Cohen
That’s right, folks, it’s that glorious time of the year when we have to fill out piles of forms to ask the government to give us back what they stole. So let’s do something fun to lighten the mood: VENT.
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Besides the fact that it’s theft, I think the taxation newspeak bothers me the most. They refer to their victims as “customers”, claim that what the do is a “service”, and call the loot they plunder “contributions” or “obligations.” Those are just a few examples of their sickening verbiage. I have much more respect for burglars and robbers. At least they’re not deceitful or patronizing about what it is that they’re doing.
I think the thing I hate the most is how the government has fostered this mindset that we should be grateful to them for whatever tax refunds you get. As if the money isn’t yours to begin with…
I hate being forced to “voluntarily” give all that information to the government.
“Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money?” ~Jesus Christ
It’s not what I hate most, but it’s a pet peeve…
If it turns out you have paid too little tax they will charge you interest on what you ‘owed’ them. If it turns out they owe you, they don’t pay interest. It’s a little thing, but it gets on my nerves.
Most of my life I’ve paid taxes with the same attitude I have when using a campground outhouse; You hold your nose, make sure you have all your paperwork in order, and do what you need to do as quickly as possible.
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Not knowing the cost of the taxes prior to transacting certain business. I therefore, shy away from certain transactions only because the taxation level is unknown at that moment.
One of the things I hate most is something you’ve already touched on: the lost productivity, not just in what individuals lose by having to complete taxes, but the careers that are made in tax instead of productive activities, as well as the loss of that money spent on taxes instead of something actually productive.
The other thing I really really hate is how despite all the EVIDENCE that tax money is spent irresponsibly and usually only funds these pipe dream projects which, going uncompleted, require more taxes to fund them, people still insist that taxes are necessary to provide public goods.
I’m sorry, for what public and for what good? Are they perhaps referring to the slums that Obama helped create in Chicago with tax subsidized developments? Or to the most expensive military in the world and thus feels the need to be “doing something”? Or perhaps our police force which consists mainly of egotistical jerks who think they have the right to enter our homes without warrants, beat us up, kill our animals, and leave with a warning?
Yes, I think what I hate most about taxes is the public good theory it “justifies”.
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Taxes are necessary for any government, and at least some form of order is required of every large human collective, given man’s sin nature. Thus the civil magistrate (and taxation) are necessary evils.
So. There are all manner of taxes, but the thing I hate most about the federal income tax is that TAXPAYERS are the thing that make the Taxspenders continue their immoral, illegal fraud.
As for me, for 11 years now, April 15th has been just another day of the calendar. I have been VERY vocal in my volleys with the IRS over the years, yet they haven’t touched me or my money, since I bought a Tax Code, read it, and learned that it’s perfectly constitutional, perfectly Byzantine and colossal (by design), and that according to it, and the US Supreme Court, and the Internal Revenue Manual (the IRS employee manual)…I never had a duty to keep records, file things, or pay any IRS demand.
Yes, you read that right: as an engineer, I NEVER had a duty to file; I always just did it because my neighbors did. But not for the past 11 years; now I am one of an estimated 67 million non-filers.
The problem with America today is not big government, or even criminal government…as much as ignorant citizens who refuse to enforce the law. So what I hate most about ‘taxes’ is the Taxpayer who, without ever reading (or even SEEING) a copy of the Tax Code, just allows a criminal Congress’ bag-men to continue skimming his paychecks.
The Taxspenders are supported by these Taxpayers. That is what I hate most about the IRS scam run by Congress for the past 97 years.
Time to read, people. The law is just fine; it’s the lazy Taxpayer that is killing rule of law, and our liberties.
Tax Honesty is defense (financial embargo) and AmericaAgain! is offense: we must now begin bringing every member of Congress before the bar of justice back home, severally and under STATE laws that most of them have violated egregiously, while violating the Constitution too.
Hard work ahead, and I know how Americans detest hard work…so that’s something ELSE I hate about “taxes”… Sigh.
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