How much buying power do you have for every dollar earned?

[crays]

And some localities tax groceries (Parker)...some don't (Aurora)

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression there was a whole category of non-taxable food items that was state, if not national. Meat, produce, etc.
Seems like it is mostly stuff that is not ready-to-eat as purchased.



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[20X11]

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression there was a whole category of non-taxable food items that was state, if not national. Meat, produce, etc.
Seems like it is mostly stuff that is not ready-to-eat as purchased.



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Yep...wife used to work for Sunflower/Sprouts...she refuses to buy groceries in Parker...Co may not tax them, but City does.

[ben4372]

Yep Lakewood taxes food too. Sheridan doesn't tax food but if you buy anything in Riverpoint you get to pay PIF. The PIF improvement fees drive me sooo crazy. Lots of these redevelopment deals get you into 10% range. I hear thats the amount of the excessive tea tax in Boston.

[20X11]

Also included the excise taxes on tires, embedded taxes on fuel (well over 20 cents per gallon in CO ), etc. We are taxed when we earn, when we save, when we invest, when we spend, and when we own.

[DDT951]

I highly doubt it's that high:
gas tax,
vehicle registration use tax,
various fees and taxes on phone, internet, cable, utilities, sales tax, airfare, booze/smokes, lots of excise taxes most aren't aware of, there isn't much you spend money on that isn't taxed one way or another

Keep going. If you buy something from say Walmart (or pick a store). You are paying a portion of their property tax. You are paying their corporate income tax. You are paying the tax they use on fuel to ship items. You are paying the tax on the vehicle.

All of those taxes are hidden from you, but you still pay them in the price of goods.

My guess would be realistically, 80% of what you pay is taxes if you add it up all the way along.

[FireMoth]

What if we veiwed compulsory insurance as a form of tax?
Unregulated, but required to be able to do business on state and federal levels. And many that arent required, but exist as a buffer against law suits by other entities or peoples insurers.
How much insurance does the fuel truck carry, the fuel itself, the trucks that use the fuel, the driver of the truck, the handlers who u load the truck, the people stocking the shelves, cleaning the floors, etc...

[Irving]

This seems like a fruitless exercise.

[DDT951]

This seems like a fruitless exercise.

That is the entire intent of having such a convoluted tax system. You never know exactly how much you are paying in taxes and the govt can hide it.

But lets look at it in a different way.

Some estimates of what can be found on line.

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-feder...akdown-3305789

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/total

Federal Spending 2019: $4.04T

State and local government spending: $3.25T

That is $7.25T.

Some estimates has it around $7.6T.

The US GSP is around $19T

So simple math tell you that 7.6/19 = 40%

So 40% of all money made in in the USA is consumed every year by "the government".

Now consider how many people do not add to the GDP...

But in the simplest breakdown, there is a 40% tax on the entire GDP of the USA...

[Irving]

In that context it seems more important than the idea of spending power.

[MrPrena]

Render unto Caesar.

Quo vadis?

One of the most misapplied verses ever, aside from "turn the other cheek".

I initially wanted to rant on fiscal/monetary plus the excess increase change in Money Supply. Slack reserve requirement. QE10^7 (Obama trump Mnuchin ruben all same),crappy bond activities, inflations.

[Off topic]
However..... speaking of LATIN
I learned from Jeopardy that fear of 13 was literally a translation. Tridecaphobia.

So. I try to be smart and thought fear of 4 was quadrophobia, but it was tetraphobia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

I remember some 4th floor was using "F" instead of 4th.

四 and 死
4 and death sounds same in sound.
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