Posted by
GunnyG© on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:17:03 AM
Did you ever stop and think how many taxes you pay? Here is a list of them and it is not all inclusive because the Feds, led by tax cheat Rangel, followed by financial idiots like Bawney Fwank, Nazi Pelosi, and ABSCAM Murtha pass more of them daily. Here they are:
Accounts Receivable Tax, Accumulated Earnings Tax, Ad Valorem Tax (includes duties on imported items), Alcohol License Tax, Alternative Minimum Tax, Ammunition Tax, Bicycle License Tax, Building Permit Tax, Capital Gains Tax, CDL License Tax, Cigarette Tax, Clothing Sales Tax, Chemical Usage Tax (to protect Gaia and the Ozone layer), City Tax, Coal Severance Tax, Coal Gross Proceeds Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Corporate License Tax, Court Fines (indirect taxes), Customs Duty, Drivers License Tax, Dog License Tax, Electrical Energy Producers Tax, Estate Tax, Federal Income Tax, Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA), Firearms Tax, Fishing License Tax, Food License Tax, Fuel Permit Tax, Gas Guzzler Tax, Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon) per tank, Generation-skipping Transfer Tax, Gift Tax, Goods and Services Tax, Gross Production Tax Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon), Hospital Facility Utilization Fee Tax, Hunting License Tax, Inheritance Tax, Interest Expense (tax on the money), Inventory Tax, IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax), IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax), Land Value Tax, Local Income Tax, Lodging Facility Use Tax, Liquor Tax (buying), Luxury Taxes, Marriage License Tax (talk about a double whammy), Medicare Tax, Metal Mines Gross Proceeds Tax, Metal Mines License Tax, Miscellaneous Mineral Mines License Tax, Miscellaneous Mines Net Proceeds Tax, Nursing Facility Bed Tax, Oil and Natural Gas Production Tax, Parking Meter Tax, Payroll Tax, Professional Privilege Tax, Property Tax, Proxy Tax, Public Contractor's Gross Receipts Tax, Public Service Commission Tax, Public Utility Tax, Real Estate Tax, Real Estate Transfer Tax, Recreational Vehicle Tax, Rental Vehicle Sales Tax, Resort Tax, Resource Indemnity and Groundwater Assessment Tax, Retail Telecommunications Excise Tax, Road Toll Booth Tax, Road Usage Tax (truckers), Sales Tax, School Tax, Self-Employment Tax, Septic Permit Tax, Service Charge Taxes, Severance Tax (for natural resources), Social Security Tax, State Income Tax, State Unemployment Tax (SUTA), Statewide Emergency Telephone 911 System Fee Tax, Surtax Tax - Extra tax on taxes, Tariffs - A tax on imports. This is to protect all the industries we used to have, Telephone Federal Excise Tax, Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax, Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax, Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax, Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax, Telephone State and Local Tax, Telephone Usage Charge Tax, TDD Telecommunications Service Fee Tax, Tobacco Products Tax (Other than Cigarettes), Toll Bridge Taxes Toll Tax, Toll Road Fee Tax, Tonnage Tax, Traffic Fines (indirect taxation), Tunnel Tax, Trailer Registration Fee Tax, Tax Utility Taxes, Use tax, Vaccination Tax, Vehicle License Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Watercraft Registration Tax, Well Permit Tax, Wholesale Energy Transaction Tax, Workers’ Compensation Tax.
Here are a few more fun facts:
Number of employees at the IRS in FY 2010: Over 100,000.
Current IRS Budget:
$11.4 billion
How many words does the IRS Code contain? 3.4 million words. The Bible, for example, contains about 774,746 words.
How many hours did individual taxpayers spend complying with income tax laws in 2009? 3.8 billion hours complying with various tax laws. Up from 3.6 billion in 08.
When is the Cost of Government Day (COGD)? In 2001, it WAS 5 July. Thanks to Comrade Barry's Bailout plan and PORKZILLA, it's now somewhere in the middle of August. Maybe one day, we can just work all year long to pay the government, like the serfs of old did.
In 2001, the IPI Center for Tax Analysis wrote that Federal income taxes only represent 42% of the total tax bite on Americans with an additional 657.5 BILLION DOLLARS in hidden taxes. In 2001, that amounted to an extra 2,642 dollars per person! This bumps our tax burden to a whopping 56%! In the area of Corporate taxes, an area liberals love to yammer about, over 215 BILLION was collected on all levels in 1997 yet when corporations are taxed, as legal entities, they pass this on to the consumer in the areas of: (a) raising products prices, (b) lowering stockholder payments (discouraging investment), (c) lowering, reducing, or stopping employee compensations (discouraging expansion), and (d) making capital investment ore prohibitive than it is worth. This should infuriate ALL Americans (who work that is) because it hits us in every area and it is a double taxation on the company's profits and then the tax on the dividend PAID OUT! Estimates from economists that the Gunny has read state that double taxation kills about one trillion dollars in our national wealth (2001 figures). Some of the hidden costs of a corporate tax include: Employer Share of Payroll Taxes, Employer share of Unemployment Taxes, Implicit Telecommunications and Electricity Taxes, Import taxes, Insurance Premium Taxes, and taxes on their business licenses.
Once enacted, a tax is never removed. That, my friends, is a FACT. The telephone tax was enacted to pay for the Spanish-American War and ran for about 90 years before dying and ONLY after the people protested...vigorously. FDR signed the "witholding" scam to hide the deductions from Americans, in order to continuously provide the Feds with money for WW2, and it never went away. A little know fact is that the Beer Tax was DOUBLED by the Feds to help pay for the Korean War and kept there ever after. The tax was doubled in 1991 under RINO Bush 41. A whopping 43% of a six-pack is taxes (DGI/McGraw Hill), and it is a regressive tax meaning that it hits the households in America earning UNDER 45,000 the most (66%). Think of THAT when you pop a tab. LBJ hiked taxes into the stratosphere to pay for his guns and butter program and it took Ronaldus Magnum to slash em.
WTF, Comrade Barry laid on a .40 tax PER CIGAR in 2009 effectively killing the El Credito company in Tampa.
In a 2001 study by the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), hidden taxes include: (a) 35 cents of the cost of a $1.14 loaf of bread (30%), (b) 18 cents of a 50-cent can of soda (16%), (c) a whopping 72% in taxes for a fifth of booze, (d) 34.40 on an 80.00 hotel room (43%), (e) 63.6 dollars on a 159.00 airline ticket (40%), a utility bill (this is BEFORE the Crap and Tax bill) of 153.09 has 39.35 in taxes slapped on it (26%), and of course, a gallon of gas has a 55% tax on it. Each and every gallon pumped every single day. According to the DOE, the USA uses 390 million gallons a day resulting in 163,800,000 dollars a DAY pouring into the Treasury, or OVER 59 BILLION a YEAR! And all for doing NOTHING to find it, refine it, transport it, or pump it. Legalized robbery.
Now why did the Gunny give you old data? So that you can compare to 2009 and the ATR released figures for your hidden taxes.
Cigarettes 86.71% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
Distilled Spirits 79.60% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
Car Rentals 60.60% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
Beer 56.20% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
Domestic Airfare 55.00% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
Phone (Landline) 51.80% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
Gasoline 51.20% of the total price is tax.
Hotel Stays 50% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
Phone (Wireless) 46.40% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
Cable 46.30% of the total price is tax.
Firearms 45.60% of the total price is tax. (THIS is why Congress wants to outlaw private sales. NO TAX PAID!) UP from previous year.
Meals 44.80% of the total price is tax.
Soda 37.60% of the total price is tax. UP from previous year.
What this country needs is a massive tax revolt and the Gunny hopes to God that the rise of the Tea Party's is just the beginning. The fact that the Federal Colossus can tax tobacco at such a high level, while demonizing it, and penalizing lower classes with this regressive sh*t is absolutely disgusting. But with SCOTUS bums getting 190K a year for sitting on their butts legislating from the bench, Congrcritters earning anywhere from 175K to 200K a year for imposing edicts on US that THEY refuse to follow, and Senators making 190K+, and ALL of them rich elitists, someone has to pay for them to live the good life. That's us right? WRONG!
TIME FOR A TAX REVOLT!
TIME FOR TERM LIMITS!