Enough Taxes Already

The American government has made it plainly clear that they like to tax the hell out of us. My mother received a severance check when she got laid off, and a little under half of it went to the government. A friend of mine sold a popular website to investors for $62,000, and more than a fourth of it went to the government. You're lucky if you see 70% of your weekly paycheck, sales tax in California is almost 10%, and don't even get me started about how the American people are now paying for federally funded abortions on an international level.

And then I read this from Creative Minority Report today:

But today's vote in the House is big.

We've all be inundated by the Michael Jackson story , so its been hidden in the news. But the government is voting on an energy bill widely known as "cap and trade." This means that the federal government will decide to sell the right to "pollute" with carbon dioxide. This might not sound so bad, but that means every factory, power plant, and car driver will have to buy the right to use fuel and the money will go to the federal government. Selling the rights alone is supposed to bring in a TRILLION dollars to the federal government. And it all gets passed on the the consumer. The largest tax in American history. They are predicting the doubling of electric bills. $5.00 per gallon gas. A surtax on all products made that use fuel. Forget building (or heating) churches with their high ceilings and large spaces.

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This is theft as far as I'm concerned.