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Originally Posted by Robbie
Paul, we were led as a society to believe that paying a big ass sales tax on gasoline would take care of our roads. Bullshit. And we ALL pay a nice sales tax on every goddamn thing we purchase. It's a ripoff.
And of course the cops are paid for by our local taxes, the sheriff by our county taxes, and everything else by our state taxes. So NO, I do not appreciate paying the federal govt. all that money at all.
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...and schools paid for by our property taxes.
In many states the government makes more money from the gas you buy than the oil companies make in profit.
The extra taxes we pay for gasoline are not sales taxes, but excise taxes I believe. Then there is sales tax on top of it.
Our first federal income tax was started to pay for the Civil War. Then it was brought back in 1913. The same year we got the Federal Reserve...