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blueone,
roads are paid for with gas sales tax. law inforcement and welfare is paid by sales and luxury taxes like alcohol, tobacco, registering your car ect... state medicare is also funded by sales tax. schools are funded by property taxes. and all this is assuming your state isnt some broke ass state where these revenues can support it, then of course you have a state income tax.all these are state revenue. regullated by your govenors and mayors. not federally.
federal income tax basically pays for national defense. and medicade pays for federally funded health care. and of course there is social security.
but just to clarify, the bulk of taxes that fund the infrastructure you and i live in locally, are paid for by sales and luxury taxes to the state.
so when politicians say they want to lower taxes, as in a federal level, im all for it. i believe we need smaller government and our military should not be policing the world.
but at the same time, when they say they want to lower taxes, its a bunch a hot air, cause they cant regulate the state level.
this is a point i like to make to rednecks that say that imigrants dont pay taxes. well maybe not federal, but they pay all the state level taxes.. sales and luxury. and they may not pay property taxes, but they rent from people who do.