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What don't you mind paying taxes on?

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I don't mind paying income taxes. Not a big deal at all. Don't mind paying taxes on some services. And I absolutely don't mind paying taxes on gasoline as long as the money is used for road improvements, schools, etc.

I do hate paying taxes for goods (groceries, apparel, fast food, etc).

What do you guys not mind paying taxes on?
 
..government schools. if you choose to have kids you should pay the full boat for education. not the tax payer.
 
Originally posted by: IGBT
..government schools. if you choose to have kids you should pay the full boat for education. not the tax payer.
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It is beneficial to the country to have an educated populace.
 
Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Gas taxes are used for roads exclusively.
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Then why don't we have roads paved of gold?!?!
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Because we are constantly building new roads to feed the sprawl lobby instead of telling the developers to go pound sand and use the gas tax money exclusively for the roads we already got.
 
Originally posted by: IGBT
..government schools. if you choose to have kids you should pay the full boat for education. not the tax payer.
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I don't mind paying for quality education. I think that's one of the good things taxes should be used for.

What I am sick of is being taxed on everything, just for the sake of being taxed.
 
Originally posted by: KK
Originally posted by: BarneyFife
Gas taxes are used for roads exclusively.
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is this true? I doubt that it is, but I don't know.
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I have never lived anywhere that it wasn't true. Drivers even bitch about using gas tax funds for bike lanes and public transit even though it makes their commute better.
 
roads, we voted to put more money into roads here in missouri a few years ago, they have really been fixing them and improving them since then
 
I don't mind taxes on gas, oil, natural gas, coal, nonrenewable fuels in general, and alcohol and other recreational drugs. I also would approve a gas guzzler tax on new vehicles that get less than 30 mpg combined (my car is rated below that level, but it's old enough to vote.) Nonrenewable fuels are by definition non-sustainable and must be replaced with renewables. At the state level gas taxes are the singular most efficient method of paying for road maintenance, since most vehicle induced damage to roads is done by vehicles over 6000 pounds, while vehicles under 2000 pounds do negligible damage to the roads. At the federal level an oil and gas import duty would be more efficient than a gas tax since that would only tax the non-renewable portion while improving investment opportunities for renewable alternatives.

There is a persistent urban legend that the gas tax here was spent on something other than roads, I've never seen any evidence to support that myth.

I hate paying taxes on food, which is taxed in Missouri.
 
food on things is ok, income tax in not constitutional because it is an indirect tax that is not divided up and given back to the people in equal shares.
 
Why don't they raise the gas tax an extra 1/10 cent so we can get an even number and they can use the surpluss to do more roads???
 
Maybe in the utopias you folks live in gas taxes aren't used for anything except the roads, but here in Kahleeforneeya, every dammed time we vote for a tax that will be used ONLY for the roads, either the legislature or the Governator, or both subvert the funds to the state general fund and leave road work unfunded...
 
I would not mind being taxed for about anything if I thought the money was going to be put to good use.

Sadly, that is rarely the case.

MotionMan
 
I would even agree on increasing gas taxes, if they used it to help companies produce non pollution cars, instead of appealing to the oil industry all the time. It's time the goverment stops being greedy and starts realizing we need to do something to save the planet. Also stop allowing the gas industry to patent stuff they dont use (like every single oil alternative out there).

Other things I don't mind paying taxes on is media, as it helps keep downloading of MP3/movies legal, and keeps the RIAA at bay. Though I'm afraid eventually it will change, or they'll raise the taxes to something unreasonable.

Taxes in general I don't mind as it comes back into services we use, though I don't agree with how they like raising them more then lowering them. Like they want to tax cottages, that I do not agree with at all. Not like your getting city service in the bush (or want to) so no reason the taxes should be as high as a house.
 
Not so much specific taxes but I hate when funds are applied to too many free handout programs and supporting non us citizens.
 
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