Last Year’s Tax Figures Defy Tea Party Math

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Taxed Enough Already is the basis of an acronym some use for the Tea Party. I’m sure there are plenty of successful Tea Partiers who pay a whopping tax load, but a great many do not. In fact for all the crowing about excessive federal tax burden, the actual figures of what we paid last year could leave one wondering.

Those of us who know Tea Partiers might ask, is their tax burden as real as Obama’s Kenyan citizenship? As real as global warming? As real as FEMA camps and ammunition purchases destined to be used on US citizens in a totalitarian takeover? As real as United Nations Agenda 21 and George Soros???

For the 2012 tax year — and the application has been updated as of April 2013 — there is no reason to wonder. Whitehouse.gov offers Your 2012 Taxpayer Receipt.

There you can select an income and dependent status range, and get a breakdown for what you pay for Social Security, your eventual Medicare expenses, and all 19 major categories of government endeavor that are sending us to unconstitutional hell.

For instance, married with one child and $50,000 in income, Social Security and Medicare stand to address your own future needs and is the largest share at $2,825 per year. Your actual federal income tax would only be around $1,889, or about $40 per week.

For health care expenditures by the federal government not included in Medicare, you pay among the highest of any of the income tax expenses. They tally to $424 per year or just a little less than defense. That works out to $36 per month, or about $9 per week.

At that $50,000 income level, natural resource management and environmental concerns cost you a whopping 74 cents a week. Disaster response at the federal level is 16 cents each and every week. International expenses including the much-hated foreign aid tallies at 62 cents a week.

It’s true that the Tea Party’s armchair economists are keen to note no one can continue spending like this. Taxes and regulation are killing us, and we still have yet to see Uncle Ron Reagan’s promise of economic abundance that will certainly come from decreased federal taxes and fewer job-numbing regulations.

Finally, a set of economic principles we could all understand, and it seems that no one was listening to Reagan quite as carefully as our Tea Party brethren. As soon as they ride the birthed, Muslim, Benghazi, FEMA and ACA horses into power, they are sure to slash the federal budget and that should put at least $20 a week into our pockets. Then get ready for the economic miracle that will surely follow as the nation becomes more like our booming and self-reliant southern red states, where Tea Party logic is gospel.

Try Your Federal Taxpayer Receipt for yourself and see how your own income stacks up. Judge for yourself the terrifying cost of US government, and consider whether we could stand to pay a few more dollars in taxes to avoid trillion dollar deficits.

Edited by SS

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