Tax Freedom Day is the last day of each year that the average person must work and produce wealth for the US federal and state government to confiscate—like it or not. According to the Tax Foundation site, people living in 1930 worked from January 1st until February 11th (11.2%) to pay their share of the federal and state government. In 2000, this time increased to May 3rd (33.6%).

Since this site is using averages for all people (it’s focused on the size of the government), it doesn’t account for the extremely unjust distribution of the burden: those who create more wealth are penalized more, those who create no little or no wealth are in many cases REWARDED through “social” programs and “safety nets.”

We’ve all heard and quickly forgot the horror story of the “fair” tax burdens: all those who create the bottom 50% of the wealth shoulder just over 4%; those who create the top 10% of the wealth shoulder 65% of the burden. Suckers.

It’s a wonder that the economy hasn’t yet collapsed. Perhaps there is some math whiz in the OMB who has determined that average people will stop creating wealth if they’re allowed to only keep, say, 50%. So the government is careful to keep it lower than this threshold.

It’s also easy for people to stick it to their neighbors by voting for more programs and socialism so long as those who earn more than they do are forced to pay. Looking at the distribution of the tax burden, it’s easy to see how these new laws are passed: to the more populous “poor” people, it’s easy money.

The more I think about it, the more I’m ready to quit and either sit at home and play Xbox all day or swing in my hammock and get away with contributing my measly 4%. At least I won’t be a sucker.

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