So, if the average American's tax burden is 40% as per Wikipedia then that means that we work 146 days, or from January 1 until May 26th with no weekends or holidays or sick time off just to have paid our taxes for the year. That's well over 5 months of continuous labor just to pay our taxes. So we enter each year as a literal financial slave to the government for nearly half the year. I submit the humble question: How long do we have to work for taxation to cross from civic duty to repression, and from repression to outright slavery?
For my part having to work nearly half the year is at least repression, and I would not fight defining it as slavery. And that's just the 'average' American. So, now that we have a new house of representatives that is supposedly conservative. Maybe we can get them to loosen these chains a bit, and we can go from being repressed to merely doing our civic duty as was intended by our Founding Fathers.
Of course we will have to hold their feet to the fire, but that will cost us in perceived benefits. At our current rate of taxation we can't afford all of our social programs so we will have to take the burden for our poor and downtrodden onto our own local charities, but it is a price I for one am prepared to pay gladly.
In the mean time our tax burden is about to go up in January merely because the Democratic house wouldn't vote in time to stop the current tax rates from sunsetting. I haven't the math to know how that will play out, but that nearly half a year is going to get longer, and in mind definitely cross over into slavery. I for one refuse to be a slave. Not sure how or what I'm going to do, but I will NOT be a slave to my government. They work for me dammit, not the other way around!
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