Taxes? Only little people pay taxes...

To bad that mappie thing didn't include the, what is it
7% (times two if your self-employed) tax rate of SSI.
 
That's probably a sales tax rate. They get mighty picky about sales taxes in places like FL and TN, where there isn't a state income tax.
 
Aw jeez that's right State Income Tax is what that mappie refers too; then there's the State sales Tax and the Property taxes and then the possible taxes levied against your water bill and the electrical power taxes and any taxes levied against corporations that are passed on and the Gas Tax and the Auto Registration which is a tax and and and on and on and ...
 
Yeah, we get to forgo a state income tax, but the sales tax is ludicrous. I live as close to Asheville NC as I do any significant city in TN, so I do my major purchases in NC for the tax relief.
 
Kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it? You dodge a tax because it's high, and then they have to raise it to make up the difference.
 
In a way. It's all tax income for the government, just collected in different ways. A sales tax is a voluntary tax to a point. If I don't want to pay the tax, I can simply purchase less goods. Or go to NC and get out of paying it. Income tax is taken from you before you ever get it. It's the principle I suppose. Either way, they'll get your money.
 
If we went to a straight consumption tax it would be to fair.

If you make a bundle and live modestly you'd beat the taxman. If you aren't worth much and consequently don't make much then

Yep Tax the Rich into poverty werks every time.

So S-n-Pee you are saying that Mappie thing is wholly incorrect? If your nada gonna then I will!!!

If you add the income taxes AND the state, county and city taxes up, it is WAY too low!

Any American not in the top bracket is paying 50% in taxes. The quote unquote Rich pay even more than that.
 
1. A man from Tennessee passed away and left his entire estate to his beloved widow,
but she can't touch it 'til she's 14.

2. How can you tell if a Tennessee redneck is married?
There's dried tobacco juice on BOTH sides of his pickup truck.

3. Did you hear that they have raised the minimum drinking age in Tennessee to 32?

It seems they want to keep alcohol out of the high Schools.

4. What do they call reruns of "Hee Haw" in Tennessee?

Documentaries

5. Where was the toothbrush invented? Tennessee (and West Virginia).

If it had been invented anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush.

6. A Tennessee State trooper pulls over a pickup on I-40 and says to the driver, "Got any I.D.?"
and the driver replies "Bout wut?"

7. Did you hear about the $3 million Tennessee State Lottery?
The winner gets $3.00 a year for a million years.

8. The governor's mansion in Tennessee burned down! Yep. Pert near took out the whole trailer park. The library was a total loss,

too. Both books - poof! Up in flames, and they hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

9. A new law was recently passed in Tennessee; when a couple gets divorced they are STILL cousins.

10. At the scene of the accident a trooper asked the Tennessee driver what gear he was in at the moment of impact.

He replied, "tractor hat and camouflage huntin' outfit"

11. Folks in Tennessee now go to movies in groups of 18. They were told "17 and under are not admitted".

12. A Tennessee man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only 2 minutes apart!" "Is this

her first child?", the doctor asked. "No ya dummy" the man shouted, "This is her husband!"
 
California: 27th state/local, 9th incl. federal

/me considers moving to Alaska to lower my taxes
 
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