{"id":1005,"date":"2010-04-03T00:25:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T05:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2010-04-03T00:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T05:37:35","slug":"taxesss-we-hatesss-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/1005\/","title":{"rendered":"TAXESSS – WE HATESSS THEM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, I’m officially sick of taxes. It seems like everything is taxed. I just spent about four hours doing our tax “return”, which wasn’t a return at all. It cost us over $2,000 on top of the already hefty deductions Jill had taken out of her paychecks.<\/p>\n

I am honest on my taxes because I believe that’s what God wants me to do. But sometimes I get angry at the plethora of taxes we pay. Here’s what Jill and I (and you) pay… a partial list, I’m sure there’s more:<\/p>\n

-Federal income tax
\n-State income tax
\n-Sales tax
\n-Use tax (you pay tax in MA on almost anything bought out of state)
\n-Excise tax
\n-Property tax
\n-Gas tax
\n-Capital gains\/dividend tax
\n-Highway tolls
\n-Cigarette tax (fortunately not applicable to us)<\/p>\n

This is nuts. Americans didn’t pay ANY federal income tax until 1861<\/a>. And now we’re taxed on everything. Maybe we’re not supposed to notice since it’s a little at a time from lots of different sources. But that makes me notice it MORE.<\/p>\n

And then there’s the filing of taxes – you fill them out as best you can and then four years later get a nice IRS letter saying you owe $2,000 extra dollars PLUS INTEREST. How is that fair? This has happened to us a few times. I’m self-employed, so I seem to pay about 25% just for income tax.<\/p>\n

I’ll show them. I just won’t make any money. They can’t take what I don’t have! The more you make, the more you get taxed, thanks to graduated taxation. I’ll just be a bum. Thanks, Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n

And yes, we do have a great country… nice roads, powerful armed forces, decent public education (depending on where you are). But there’s so much waste too.<\/p>\n

I’m not against taxes… I’m against excessive tax that goes to things that we shouldn’t be paying for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, I’m officially sick of taxes. It seems like everything is taxed. I just spent about four hours doing our tax “return”, which wasn’t a return at all. It cost us over $2,000 on top of the already hefty deductions Jill had taken out of her paychecks. I am honest on my taxes because I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}