Poor People

[nordlead]

trashleg said:

nordlead said:

you are talking income tax only. You still haven't included sales tax, property (and school) tax, and tax for anything else you might have to pay for. My property tax is going to be 5k/year. 3k of which is for elementary/high school even if I never have a child, or if I send him to private school. The town school taxes are so high in NY that the NY state government decided they would start the STAR program which essentially is a state rebate on your local town taxes. Obviously something is really screwed up. Rather than lower taxes, we now have to pay people who manage our rebate on our tax because it is too high.

 yeah, but you were in education when YOU were a child, right? and so back and so back through the generations. its like learning first, picking up the tab later. i know that over here we have a lot more government-funded programmes than you guys though, so i can see how its different for people in different countries. as for sales tax, im assuming thats like our VAT (calue added tax) which is applied to most goods and services (at a rate of 15%), but most of the time when im buying things in shops i dont even think "how much of this is tax?" perhaps thats just inexperience on my part though, lol.

No, I have never been in a public school ever, I was homeschooled. My parents paid taxes even though we never received a penny for it, and my kids will also be homeschooled. Hopefully my grandkids will be homeschooled since I think homeschooling is great. So that will be ~60 years of taxes just from me (or ~240k) that I never get a peny out of for any of my family in either direction.

Also, our taxes aren't like VAT. VAT is included in the sticker price. So if you buy a 20GBP item, then at the register it is 20GBP. If you buy a $20 item in the US then at the register it is $21.65. (tax varies by area) While most the time I don't care about the sales tax, sometimes you really have to sit down and figure out if you can afford it due to the taxes.