I’m all bent out of shape again today by the lack of common sense in our great bureaucracy. Where is the incentive as a middle class American to not let this country just slip off into irrelevance by doing absolutely nothing? The last time I checked, the middle class is getting closer to the lower class than the upper class. So my question today is why do I pay extra taxes for the services I use? Huh? Whatever do you mean? Let me give a short illustration that hopefully even a socialist or a bureaucrat could understand.
Let’s just say for arguments sake that I own a car and my friend, we’ll call him Bob, doesn’t. I drive to work everyday while Bob takes a public bus. In order for me to drive my car, it needs a special kind of liquid called “gasoline”. When I buy gas, not only am I paying a premium to the company whose gas I am using, I also pay about 18 cents to the government for every gallon I purchase. (Which by the way works out to about a 6% tax on gasoline per gallon) Bob and I both travel on the same road to work everyday, a road paid for by both of our taxes. The difference is that Bob didn’t have to pay an extra 6% tax to use the road like I did, instead he pays a small amount that goes towards the cost of public transportation; a system that is not self sustainable and only uses the money collected by passengers to offset its losses with the difference being made up by guess what, our tax dollars. In a perfect world where Bob and I paid the same amount in taxes, this example would probably be a wash in the long run but what if I pay slightly more in tax than Bob does? I’m getting screwed. Plain and simple.