End of Day Report: It Has Been A Taxing Day!
Editorial Cartoon by William Warren |
Here's a great idea that would draw more attention to how much of your hard-earned money the federal government takes and wastes -- move tax filing day to the first week of November just before Americans vote!
In recognition of the day, I want to share these tax facts with you:
According to the Tax Policy Center, the top 20% of income earners pay 84% of all income taxes collected.
Editorial Cartoon by AF Branco |
Last year, the federal government received record tax revenues of just over $3 trillion dollars. But it still ran a deficit of nearly $500 billion.
The federal tax code is nearly 75,000 pages long. In the past ten years, it increased by nearly 15,000 pages. Obamacare alone added more than 3,000 pages to the tax code.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
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1 Comments:
Not for me. Still have not filed yet.
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