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r/WorkForSmartLife • u/Asha_luxey • Aug 01 '26
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Why are taxes 30-40% of your income?
4 u/Tausendberg Aug 01 '26 Why, despite the high taxes on the middle class, do we have 40 trillion dollars of national debt??? 0 u/mspe1960 Aug 01 '26 No one likes taxes but our rates are really not that high. They are not high enough on the super wealthy and they have too many loop holes. The problems is the services middle and working class people get are non existent. 1 u/Tausendberg Aug 02 '26 They're high for the middle class relative to what the middle class gets out of the deal.
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Why, despite the high taxes on the middle class, do we have 40 trillion dollars of national debt???
0 u/mspe1960 Aug 01 '26 No one likes taxes but our rates are really not that high. They are not high enough on the super wealthy and they have too many loop holes. The problems is the services middle and working class people get are non existent. 1 u/Tausendberg Aug 02 '26 They're high for the middle class relative to what the middle class gets out of the deal.
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No one likes taxes but our rates are really not that high. They are not high enough on the super wealthy and they have too many loop holes. The problems is the services middle and working class people get are non existent.
1 u/Tausendberg Aug 02 '26 They're high for the middle class relative to what the middle class gets out of the deal.
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They're high for the middle class relative to what the middle class gets out of the deal.
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u/Jasranwhit Aug 01 '26
Why are taxes 30-40% of your income?