Why do Americans put up with the lack of democracy and qualified representation in taxation?

Question

We allow our hard-earned money to be taxed to support thing we don't believe in or support. We are force by our federal government to support Planned Parenthood's abortion-mills. It does not matter that half of us are pro-life; we are still made to pay for abortions.

Also, why should our winnings such as Lottery, or what have you, be taxed by the federal government? The federal government has nothing to do with the luck, instincts, wisdom, knowledge, and personal initiative that we individually use to win something. Why do we let the federal government penalize and exploit our good future?

Furthermore, why do we allow the federal government to tax our personal investment activities? The federal government has nothing to do with, and does not participate in the personal investment research, the luck, instincts, wisdom, knowledge, time and effort, and personal initiative that we individually apply to be successful investors.

Answer 1

Because they have yet to realize they don't HAVE to. The United States Constitution clearly says there shall be NO taxation without representation, and that means the people agreeing to be taxed, which we did not! Still, in the 1930's our government voted in the income tax and other tax laws WITHOUT giving the people the chance or their legal right to vote on the matter. Furthermore the Constitution says that if the people of The United States, do not like the government as it now stands, WE have the right to demand that those in office step down and be replaced with others of OUR OWN choosing. Very few Americans know this.

Answer 2

I don't think anybody likes the idea of such heavy taxation, but both sides of the political side need to work together on the issue to come up with an effective response. I don't enjoy putting my money in the pot to help people kill unborn children either, or teach things like big bang Theory in the classroom..which I consider blasphemous babble, but for the immediate future I really don't see a solution. I hate to say it, because I sound like a broken record, but I can't see enough cooperation in the legislative branch to ever come to a solution, which I believe is mostly due to the liberals turning non issues into mountains!!!

Answer 3

A problem is that our federal government has grown beyond what it should have grown, and whenever it gets bigger, Congress looks for ways of paying for it through more taxes on things that may not previously have been taxed.

Write your congressmen and suggest that the federal government limit its activities in strictly local affairs (John Stossel might say, "Why should a taxpayer in Florida have to pay for a museum in Alaska?"). Then write all the other members of congress too.

Answer 4

There are somethings that I wish my money didn't not go to, however, taxes are very necessary....what do you think pays for all the things we need also...like schools. I don' t like paying taxes either but we have to, its a matter of survival....there are many taxes that I don't like, think that should not be there but where do we draw the line....income is taxed.....income is income...does not matter if it is from work or lotto...where do you draw the line....I think fewer people are pissed off because all income is taxed....can you imagine how much trouble we would get into if we started to pick and choose what income was taxed...I think even more people would be even more mad than they are now.

Answer 5

Finally someone who can ask a question with proper capitalization, punctuation, and subject/verb agreement.
However, your question requires too much information to answer in this forum. How about asking simpler questions that can be answered appropriately in a few lines. Too many times have I answered a lengthy question only to have some degenerate with a one liner to get chosen as the best answer.

Answer 6

I'm still trying to figure out why, if you take the cash in a big lottery win, you only get half and then have to pay all the taxes out of that half? And then if you DO take the entire amount it can take up to 40 years to pay it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

one in all various clarification why human beings have left their democracy to decay is distractive consumerism; human beings spend plenty greater of their lives as purchasers than as engaged electorate. study the excellent new e book Delusional Democracy.

Answer 8

We have plenty of democracy, but you're 100% right about taxes. The better you do in life, the more you're punished for it by the government.

Answer 9

Relative prosperity has lulled many Americans to sleep.

Answer 10

Not just in the good ol' US of A pal. this joke is very popular in the UK at the moment. Long, but worth the read.

England -vs- the rest of the world
REST OF THE WORLD VERSION:

The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

THE ENGLISH VERSION:

The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.

A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving. The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.

The British press inform people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while others have plenty. The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The Grasshopper Council of GB demonstrate in front of the squirrel's house.

The BBC, interrupting a cultural festival special from Notting Hill with breaking news, broadcasts a multi cultural choir singing "We Shall Overcome". Ken Livingstone rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the squirrel has gotten rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his "fair share" and increases the charge for squirrels to enter inner London.

In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The squirrels's taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the grasshopper did not want to work.

The grasshopper is provided with a council house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile. The squirrels food is siezed and re distributed to the more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper.

Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new home. The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Britain as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On arrival they tried to blow up the airport because of Britains apparent love of dogs.

The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempt bombing but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody. Initial moves to return them to their own country were abandoned because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from peoples credit cards.

A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the squirrels's food, though Spring is still months away, while the council house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain the house. He is shown to be taking drugs. Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshoppers drug 'illness'.

The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since arrival in UK.

The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him. Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.

A commission of enquiry, that will eventually cost £10,000,000 and state the obvious, is set up.

Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers and legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased. The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching Britain's multicultural diversity and dogs are criticised by the government for failing to befriend the cats.

The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison. They call for the resignation of a minister.

The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in the United Kingdom.

The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses, their taxes are increased to pay for law and order and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.