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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
as always some ****ing jackass in wichita knows what he's talking about when it comes to KC.
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The bottom line is, US household savings rates are half of what they were historically. As of January 2023, studies show that 57% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings and could not pay an unexpected expense without using credit. There are many reasons for this, but "not paying enough taxes" is last among them. We pay thousands in real estate taxes, taxes on outbuildings, taxes on vehicles, trailers, earnings taxes, sales taxes, TIF taxes, State taxes, capital gains taxes gift and estate taxes...yet we still have to significantly cut the police force and can't keep the roads from jarring loose your wheel covers. We don't have a tax base problem, we have incompetence and corruption problems, to suggest otherwise is intellectual laziness and enabling of the worst among us- greedy, incompetent, self-aggrandizing bureaucrats.