My sales taxes have doubled since my childhood. I am back in the same jurisdiction and they have gone from 4% with no local component to 7% state, 1% local. Nearly a tenth of everything I spend goes to taxes, and that's on top of federal income tax, social security tax, federal unemployment tax, state unemployment tax, state income tax, county income tax, property tax, fuel tax, excise tax, cable and internet tax, phone tax, restaurant tax, and probably a dozen others.
Other localities in other states are worse than that.
"In its annual report filed to the SEC in February 2018, Amazon estimated that not only would the company not be paying anything in 2017 federal income taxes, but it would be getting a $137 million tax refund."
> Property tax > Schools suck > Roads suck
I have no argument there.
> Sales tax
Have these been rising recently?
> Gas tax > Gas peices [prices] are out of control
Gas prices and whatever embedded taxes they have aren't that bad. They're much better than their peak around 2008 at over $4/gal.
> The recycling fund was looted
I'm not familiar with this.
> Social security was looted
Do you have a citation for that?
> Trump just announced today to the NRA that he just gave a shit-ton of military weaponry to the police “you cant buy this stuff” he said.
President Trump says a lot of things. Is there proof this actually happened?
> Corporations pay no taxes
You can argue whether they pay enough taxes, but I'd like a citation that they pay no taxes.
> Flint has no water
That's the city's own damn fault due to corruption.
> Legal marijuana is a scam from a tax perspective.
Personally, I'd rather we tax it heavily like cigarettes than to waste money incarcerating those drug users.
> Have you timed how many minutes a commercial break is on CNN?
They could use some more breaks.