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August 31st, 2017 at 5:01 pm
Of course it depends, that’s why the article says “on average”.
August 31st, 2017 at 6:43 pm
I spend more on taxes than all food, clothing and housing combined. Of course the word “spend” is misleading, so let’s fix that;
I have more extorted from me by government than I spend on food, clothing and housing combined.
“Spent” and “lost to extortion” are after all rather different concepts and we would do well to reflect that difference in our communications.
August 31st, 2017 at 11:54 pm
What Lyle said. The extortion amount is quite a bit more than food, clothing and housing combined.
September 1st, 2017 at 12:36 am
More to the point, some Americans spend more on taxes for those things because other Americans (and non-Americans) don’t pay shit for theirs.
September 1st, 2017 at 1:50 pm
As a country, we spend less on food (as a percentage of income) than anyone else in the world.
“However, there can be wide disparities within a country.
Over the past 25 years, the poorest 20% of households in the US spent between 28.8% and 42.6% on food, compared with 6.5% to 9.2% spent by the wealthiest 20% of households.”
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/this-map-shows-how-much-each-country-spends-on-food/
September 5th, 2017 at 2:20 pm
A few years ago, someone calculated that the average citizen is paying approximately 70% of income in taxes (I forget the exact number stated). Some of that turned out to be taxes paid on taxes, and lots of hidden taxes.
When congress was discussing the original income tax, there was talk of setting a limit of 3%, and the response was basically: who would ever need to move it that high?