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Highway Robbery: Americans Spent More on Taxes Last Year Than Food, Healthcare, Education, and Clothing… COMBINED



According to the latest consumer spending data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans spent more money on taxes last year than on food, healthcare, education, and clothing COMBINED.

In 2021, taxes accounted for about 25% of average consumer spending, which outpaced the average spend for many essential categories for most Americans. During that time, each “consumer unit” – individual or combined household – spent an average of $16,721.42 on food ($8,289.28), healthcare ($5,451.61), education ($1,226.14), and clothing ($1,754.39) – clocking in just under the $16,729.73 average paid in taxes.

Although it has been the case that Americans have been paying more of their income to taxes than they have spent on these essential categories for several years, the BLS consumer spending index data from Biden’s first year in office paints a grim picture for the future, as inflation – even from the back-end of 2021 before Bidenflation really kicked into hyperdrive – forced Americans to spend more on everyday essentials in 2021 than years prior.

Furthermore, a deceptive “$400 reduction” in taxes for the average consumer is not all it seems to be. While the $16,729 mean tax for each consumer unit checks in slightly below the average tax bill in 2020, it only achieves the feat by being “offset” by an average stimulus payment of $2,541.71. In other words, the Average tax payments were around $19,270 – or $2,122 above what they were in 2020. This included a whopping $8,561.46 in federal income tax, $2,564.14 in state income taxes, $2,475.18 in property taxes, $5,565.45 in Social Security, and $105.21 in other taxes.

The sleight of hand with the BLS report has led the fake news media to trumpet the numbers as an indicator of economic success for the Biden administration. According to The Daily Mail, the gap between tax expenses and living costs is “the smallest difference between the two costs since 2017.” Someone get the Big Guy an ice cream cone.

As to where said taxes are going under the Biden Regime, billions have gone to illegal invaders who walk across the southern border and are given thousands – if not tens of thousands – in aid via housing accommodations, travel costs, legal representation, food, and even cash handouts for expenditures – all paid for by said taxes. Oh and Biden is surely gearing up to send another billion or two to be laundered in Ukraine – you know, to protect democracy.

In other words, Americans are being forced to slave away to pay a whopping 25% of their total earnings just in taxes in order to foot the bill for the destruction of the country – and that’s before Biden’s new tax hike kicks in and he sicks his 87,000 newly hired, armed IRS collectors on the public. What’s more, last year’s numbers barely scratch the surface to account for the ‘invisible’ tax that is inflation, which has ballooned out of control under this fraudulent regime.

Miss Trump Yet? Unfortunately, Biden’s year two is gearing up to be even more brutal on the American consumer, as the privately-owned Federal Reserve (yes that same FED) is planning yet another interest rate hike in the wake of the Biden regime’s catastrophic economic failures that have landed the US in this mess.
GJOFJ3 · 61-69, M
The biggest tax increase this year will be from inflation
MarineBob · 56-60, M
Looks worse for this year
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
The problem with U.S. taxes is our Congress is under the control of corporations. They bribe our congress people with campaign contributions to do their bidding. These corporations manipulate our tax system to make themselves richer.

Our taxes should go to [b]domestic improvements[/b] and public safety [b]Not[/b] to corrupt military contractors for weapons spending we don't need. And we should not be giving tax cuts, bail-outs and subsides to billionaires and corporations. I want my tax money to go to education, affordable healthcare, public transit, infrastructure and human services, i.e. programs that help ALL the people.


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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
This is a lightly edited copy-and-past job from a Reason magazine article. Reason is a radical right-libertarian publication and is funded by the Koch brothers.

https://reason.com/2022/09/12/americans-spent-more-on-taxes-last-year-than-on-food-health-care-education-and-clothing-combined/

Budjack failed to link his source (the article) and Reason misrepresented their source material (the study).

A friend of yours has discredited this:

https://similarworlds.com/politics/4462068-How-Stupid-Do-You-Have-To-Be-To-regurgitate-an
JimBeam · M
10% off Joey's Covid relief bill went to Covid relief in America. It went all over the world, and we get to pay for it.
I think about 400 million went to Pakistan for gender studies. What exactly is there to study? I figured out when I was two years old.
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Budwick · 70-79, M
@jshm2 Your memory sucks. Trump rocked the economy.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
nedkelly · 61-69, M
Did they balance the books through all of these taxes?
allygator18 · 22-25, F
Then why don't we have lower taxes?
MarineBob · 56-60, M
@allygator18 we are borrowing money to gift it to ukraine
allygator18 · 22-25, F
@MarineBob then we should stop doing that...why are we doing that...is Ukraine the only country that is making our taxes high
ViciDraco · 36-40, M
Trump increased tax burden of lower and middle class and lowered the burden of upper class. Biden put a little more burden on upper class and corporations but left middle and lower tax alone. Go shove your misleading averages up Trump's ass and I hope it kills him. We should have even higher taxes on the rich.
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ViciDraco · 36-40, M
@MarmeeMarch why would they be visiting me again?
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
@ViciDraco i owed less taxes during that time, and im by no means wealthy.
Just sayin

 
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