By the time the costs of gas, insurance, tolls, parking, and car payments are added up, the average American family spends more on driving than on health insurance or taxes. And for the bulk of society—those who use cars every day to commute, drop the kids off at school, and run errands—it seems impossible to trim the high costs of transportation in any substantial way.
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Perhaps, but I drive a car because I choose to, not because I am forced to (as we are with paying taxes).
However, if we add Fed income tax, state income tax, county income tax, property tax, state sales tax, social security tax, medicare tax, cigarette tax (if you smoke), liquor tax (if you drink), dog license tax, fishing license, hunting license, boat registration, taxes on the phone bill, taxes on your cable bill, taxes on your utility bills, and the fact that you as the consumer pay for most of the taxes a business pays, I'd argue that the basic premise of the article is false -- i.e. I don't pay more for my car than I do in taxes.
If you didn't pay taxes, what would you drive your car on. Like it or not, taxes are necessary. Think of what the world would really be like without them. Anyone who doesn't think so simply isn't realistic.
8:40 PM,
I will cancel out your foolish liberal vote come November 2012.
I am not a liberal, just realistic. We expect things and can't have them unless we pay. Unless you happen to be someone that sponges off everyone elses taxes, that wouldn't fit you 8:58 would it?
Thinking like this will lead to even more taxes!
Remember when people were comparing a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk? They were so proud of themselves for realizing that gas was still cheaper than milk.
Well guess what. Gas is still cheaper than milk but now they've BOTH gone way up!
Backwards thinking makes us ALL pay!
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