Let me say upfront that I hate taxes and I hate everything about the concept of them. You scrape, you save, you eat hamburger helper with no hamburger (well maybe not that bad), but you put together enough to buy a a house or a car. And then each year you have to buy a part of those two belongings back in taxes. It's the only two things I know you have to keep buying even though it is paid for. Could you imagine going to the mall and buying a new shirt and then at work some tax guy (or gal) comes and rips your shirt off for not paying the continuing tax on it.

You earn money on the job and you pay a chunk of it in state and federal income tax. What is left, you get in your car (that is taxed) and drive to the mall to buy that shirt. On the way, you stop and put some gas in your truck and it has a huge state and federal tax on it. Once you buy the shirt at the mall, you pay another eight cents on the dollar before you can haul it out of the store.

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