<DIV>Paul,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Many people donate money to family members so that don't have to pay as high of taxes. </DIV> <DIV>For example, if you make $100,000, give $10K away to three children over age 18, that puts you in the 70K bracket instead. Why do that? If you are single and make over $100K the government takes more than if you make $70K, like most of everything between $70-100K goes to the government, about 95% of that. I know other family members give away wealth while they are living in order to avoid the 50% estate tax their relatives would have to pay if they got it after they died. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You Wrote:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"I know that nobody likes to pay taxes, but I do enjoy having a police <BR>department, interstate highways, some means of defending our country <BR>against a foreign invader, public access to information in libraries, <BR>and probably hundreds of other benefits I'd likely be
surprised to hear <BR>are government-funded. Don't we have a duty as a citizen of our country <BR>to help provide for it's well-being?"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The rational are not objecting to being taxed. Most of your taxes don't go to those things you listed. About 70% of taxes are pretty much given away to welfare programs. Further, the government doesn't spend money wisely either, nor does it raise its revenue in an even and justified manner. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The government has become a pig, eating most of your paycheck. There is absolutely positively, no reason the government should be consuming 40% of what you produce. This government is a glutenous pig that needs to be weened, instead it is getting bigger and fatter. Remember, a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have--and it will. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan J
Arnold<BR><BR><BR><B><I>Paul Rumelhart <godshatter@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Donovan Arnold wrote:<BR><BR>> Paul,<BR>> <BR>> Why should the government be allowed to tax you twice? You pay taxes <BR>> on everything, then you got to pay taxes again on your money when you <BR>> die again when you try to give it away to ensure a decent life for <BR>> your children.<BR><BR><BR>Are they talking about estate taxes? I'll have to read the bill in <BR>question, I guess. It sounded from their little blurb that it was more <BR>like a wealthy person "giving" money to a family member in a presumably <BR>lower tax bracket and then having them "give" it back later. Maybe I'm <BR>reading things into it, though.<BR><BR>> <BR>> How many times should you be taxed for each dollar you make?<BR>> <BR>> You earn the dollar, you are taxed 40%, you buy
something with it you <BR>> are taxed another 6%. You are taxed on that dollar when you are <BR>> letting sit in the bank. You are taxed again on the property you <BR>> already bough, every year, you are taxed when you give the house to <BR>> your children. Now you ask why they shouldn't allow a person to be <BR>> taxed again?<BR>> <BR>> If the government wouldn't tax people 5 times on each dollar they <BR>> make, we wouldn't need loopholes.<BR><BR><BR>They basically tax the movement of money, from what I've seen. I know <BR>that nobody likes to pay taxes, but I do enjoy having a police <BR>department, interstate highways, some means of defending our country <BR>against a foreign invader, public access to information in libraries, <BR>and probably hundreds of other benefits I'd likely be surprised to hear <BR>are government-funded. Don't we have a duty as a citizen of our country <BR>to help provide for it's
well-being?<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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