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dalehere
Oct 5th, 2005, 9:47 am
How did we manage to allow this to be done
to us in only 100 years????

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
Capital Gains Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Court Fines (indirect taxes)
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax(FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel permit tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax Interest expense (tax on the money)
Inventory tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Local Income Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Septic Permit Tax
Service Charge Taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Road Toll Booth Taxes
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone federal excise tax
Telephone federal universal service fee tax
Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes
Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax
Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax
Telephone state and local tax
Telephone usage charge tax
Toll Bridge Taxes
Toll Tunnel Taxes
Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)
Trailer registration tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

COMMENTS:
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and
our nation was the most prosperous in the world,
had absolutely no national debt, had the largest
middle class in the world and Mom stayed home
to raise the kids.

What the hell happened???

Bruce
Oct 5th, 2005, 9:58 am
Well, we started supporting other countries.

KBandit
Oct 5th, 2005, 10:24 am
yeah, and the ones we didn't support we, uhhh, liberated.

nath3an
Oct 5th, 2005, 10:31 am
For the items on your list that were technologically available for taxes 100 years ago, most were in fact taxed. For example, your list includes liquor tax. One of the biggest tests faced by President Washington was the Whiskey Rebellion, which was precipitated by high taxes on Whiskey.

What has changed over the past 100 years is that the tax system has shifted from being mostly based on consumption (taxes on goods and services such as toll roads, luxury items, etc.) to one that is heavily based on income.

Nathan

rixchard
Oct 5th, 2005, 1:19 pm
Read this and then tell me you would rather be living (and working) 100 years ago

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/WagesandWorkingConditions.html

or this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1425436/posts

and lets not the Klan and robber barons.

Stop looking to the past for solutions to today and tommorows problems. It's full speed ahead and damn the topredos.

airborneod
Oct 5th, 2005, 3:29 pm
God bless America!

rixchard
Oct 5th, 2005, 4:55 pm
God Bless Armenia

God Bless Mesopotamia

God Bless Palestine

God Bless Kurdistan

Blah blah blah...

See, I can also make a post with no content.