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individual retailers only have to make one filing each month for their sales.
Internet providers would have to theorectically be prepared to file monthly in 50 DIFFERENT states, 50 different forms, due dates, filing procedures, etc. I am an advocate of a process known as show me how you are spending the money you currently get before I would agree to ANY tax increases. I also happen to be of the camp there is more than enough money available.......it is the real world of those who manage money that is not theirs....DO NOT MANAGE spending. No tax support from me at local, state or federal......they have the funds needed now!!! btk |
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Average Federal Salary and Average Compensation Including Benefits According to BEA data, the average federal employee salary in 2010 was $83,679 and $51,986 for the average private sector salary. When benefits are added in, the average compensation for each federal employee comes to $126,141. For private sector workers, the average compensation package, including benefits, was $62,757 for the same year. In other words, the federal government often pays salaries that are higher than the private sector at the lower end of the skill levels required and often pays lower salaries than the private sector when more complex skills are required. Average Federal Salary: $83,679 and Lowest Average Pay Increase in 10 Years - FedSmith.com |
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The state of Florida will be happy to show you how they are spending the money they currently get. It's called the state budget, which is constitutionally mandated to be balanced each and every year and which the governor just recently signed. BTW: Governor Scott is in favor of the Amazon relocation which will require Floridians to pay 6% tax on all Amazon purchases. |
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I am really tired of people picking on Fed employees. I still run across people who think I pay no federal taxes and that I receive free paid healthcare. I usually try to enlighten them to the real facts but stupid is stupid and all the facts in the world simply float over their heads. |
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Federal Employees Pay Lookup www.fedsdatacenter.com/federal-pay-rates/ Apparently you missed this in a previous post. If our federal government cannot police it's own what incentive is there for the private sector? By no means every federal employee or even most are in tax trouble but surely you are not happy or think it is acceptable that this many owe this much $$ and the numbers are increasing . If it is like the private sector those making the most are usually the ones that owe the taxes. Nearly 312,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.5 billion in back taxes as of Sept. 30, 2011, the agency said. The year before, about 279,000 workers and retirees owed $3.4 billion. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2839212.html Average Federal Salary and Average Compensation Including Benefits http://www.fedsmith.com/2012/03/25/a...t-average-pay/ According to BEA data, the average federal employee salary in 2010 was $83,679 and $51,986 for the average private sector salary. When benefits are added in, the average compensation for each federal employee comes to $126,141. For private sector workers, the average compensation package, including benefits, was $62,757 for the same year. In other words, the federal government often pays salaries that are higher than the private sector at the lower end of the skill levels required and often pays lower salaries than the private sector when more complex skills are required. Average Federal Salary: $83,679 and Lowest Average Pay Increase in 10 Years - FedSmith.com |
It seems to me that before internet retail sales like this came into the picture, if I ordered from Eddie Bauer or JCPenny or other such seller, by catalog over the phone, if their distribution and shipping center was in my home state (which it was sometimes), we had to pay the state sales tax because we were in the same state as the shipping center.
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The tax code is in bad need of improvement.
It would be an act worse than treason not to pay tax at all. We live in a country that offers a way to change but too many do not get involved. |
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You also did not touch on the real reason I jumped in here. The fact that I indeed pay taxes at the same rate that private employees. There is not a second tax table that fed employees use. I also pay for my health care. It's not free as some argue. Is it better than most private employee benefits. Yes. During my 40 years of civil service I made much less in the computer field than my private sector peers. If it were not for the benefits I would have left the federal service to make more. In any event I stayed and paid for my health care insurance while I worked. I still pay for it when I retired. Free health insurance and not paying taxes are some made up Internet rumor to **** non federal workers off and are baseless in fact. |
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All governments appetite for revenue never goes down. State, Local, Federal. They will find a way to spend any and all tax revenue. They are not run as a business. So I agree with Rubicon, never support any tax increase except to support our national defense and basic required services. Taxes will continue to increase until we go bankrupt and fail as a nation because everyone elected is out to get re-elected, not manage our country as it should be.
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I don't think there is a law preventing those in favor of more taxes to lead by example and voluntarily send an extra check to the government......... Meanwhile, I prefer to put my money into the free market and help our economy.
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I just read this poem yesterday on a friend's post in Facebook. Says a lot about where we are and at the end just enough about where we were. It is from "Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel". Google if you want to read the entire column.
Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table, At which he's fed. Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes Are the rule. Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts anyway! Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt. Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he Tries to think. Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries Tax his tears. Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways To tax his ass. Tax all he has Then let him know That you won't be done Till he has no dough. When he screams and hollers; Then tax him some more, Tax him till He's good and sore. Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in Which he's laid... Put these words Upon his tomb, 'Taxes drove me to my doom...' When he's gone, Do not relax, Its time to apply The inheritance tax. Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax CDL license Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Excise Taxes Federal Income Tax Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel Permit Tax Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon) Gross Receipts Tax Hunting License Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Luxury Taxes Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Personal Property Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service Charge Tax Social Security Tax Road Usage Tax Recreational Vehicle Tax Sales Tax School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone Federal Excise Tax Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax Telephone State and Local Tax Telephone Usage Charge Tax Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. |
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Tax codes are in need of help, but without taxes, hundreds of thousands would be forced back into the old times when life was terrible unless you fell into a category of well off white men and their families. I was fortunate enough be in the good ole boy group. Ask a minority who lived through the 50's in this country how great it was. |
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