I love paying taxes at the store with money that I’ve already paid taxes on when I earned it
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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There’s also the taxes you have to pay to *keep* what you bought (property taxes, vehicle taxes) everything is taxed in some way shape or form
Don’t forget the portion of the dollar you spent that didn’t’ go sales taxes, the store owner will have to pay income tax on
That’s the worst part of the US. Tax being added to the price not on the label, but during checkout… Dumb fucks…
Money is taxed when it moves. No matter how many times a tax was paid on the same money.
Regressive taxes are bullshit and the only reason we have them is for cuts to the progressive tax system
Why are there so many tax memes all of a sudden? I sense bots…
Yeah, why can’t they just tax the money when it comes off the production line, then they wouldn’t need to employ tax collectors.
You’re too late, Dante
I have finally constructed the Tax Evasion Apple
If you don’t like taxes just become rich and quit worrying about them
Be angry that your tax money is funding tax cuts and bail outs for billionaires, war profiteeeing in foreign conflicts, and missing audit funds that accidentally dropped into the accounts of wealthy politicians.
Don’t be angry that you’re building a better world. Be angry that the better world is only for the rich.
Yes, there is more than one tax. You may also use taxed money to pay taxes each year on land that you paid taxes on when you bought it. The taxes go to different places for different things.
you wouldnt have to if billionaires paid taxes too
Me, not paying income tax because some farmer in 1657 once paid tax over this particular dollar when he bought a sack of potato seeds
The funding has to come from somewhere.
How do some states do it without sales tax?
Americans crying over their often sub 10% sales tax. Cries in 25% sales tax after the 37% income tax AFTER the employee already paid their part of my income tax (total of around 50% income tax)…
America, where people dont understand taxes and then wonder why they dont have free healthcare like the rest of us.
Imagine having to pay income tax when you make minimum wage and not receiving the bare minimum that is universal health-care. Yall are crazy for not taking to the streets over that bullshit.
As a non-American, you undoubtedly get fucked over on tax, but I always found it baffling that your products have a price and then separate tax on top.
Actual product prices you get are cheaper but since it’s rarely (I think?) without the tax, it just seems like the same type of cheap marketing scam as making something 10.99 instead of 11.00
Friendly reminder that everywhere on earth the price you see is usually the price you pay. This “secret tax” bullshit is American Culture.
Funnily enough sales tax is NOT a tax on the consumer, it’s a tax that the business has to pay when they make a sale. However, it’s now culturally acceptable that businesses pass that tax onto the customer and make it seem like the customer is being taxed
We should not have a sales tax. It’s a terrible, regressive way to tax people. Even if you are cold, hard capitalist that hates the poor you should still hate it because it discourages behavior that you want (i.e., people spending money on shit.)
The only reason we have them is because it’s often easier to enforce (though not always, see e.g. cigarette smuggling) and it’s only ever a little bit at once so people don’t realize how much they are paying, unlike better taxation methods like income tax where the amount you pay the entire year gets shoved in your face.
That fish looks like he about had it with getting impaled by random birds this week.
Fish is a food product so it’s not taxed with sales tax in my state if you bought it from the grocery store.
Don’t forget the businesses already paid tax and then increased the price of that item to offset costs. So customers are paying that tax as well
Let’s add more steps. I earn money, income taxed. I spend money, sales taxed. I own a car I spent with my taxed income and paid a sales tax on, yearly tax. I need to fix the car, taxed. I sell the car, taxed! Guys we need to pull a George Washington and start throwing shit in the sea.
I love driving on roads and having social safety nets for the elderly and disabled, too!
There should be one tax – on land!
it’s crazy to me that if i sold you something, then you sold it back to me for the same price, there would literally have just been a direct extraction of money by the government
All these taxes yet the roads still are full of potholes and construction takes way longer than it should
So the store you bought it from pays a property tax, all those employees are getting their wages taxed, the item had to bought and shipped from somewhere (all taxed), the thing had to be produced and the materials paid for were taxed, the person producing the good was taxed, the place the item was produced at was taxed, the truck driver delivering the goods was taxed, you probably drove a car there to buy it (also taxed), using gasoline that was taxed.
Its taxes all the way down.
My favorite is inheritance tax. You already paid income, sales, property, etc. tax and now you want to give your stuff to your kids: “We’re gonna tax the SHIT out of your kid, for real.”
Wait until you find out about the extra money the store is charging because of all the taxes they are paying that you now get to pay. In Canada everything gets carbon taxed a few times over and above the regular taxes.
Daddy is going to take care of it. Blue couldn’t cut it. #gobigred
If I get a cash tip, the person already paid tax on it. I report it and pay tax on it again. (Sure I do!) I go buy a sandwich and tip the counter person. She pays tax on it, and then pays tax on what she bought. Somebody here said we don’t pay enough tax. SMH