Taxes Paid By You In One Form or Another

For this purpose we will consider fees along with taxes, we will not include tariffs -
(Here's an interesting look at one family's tax burden.)

Taxes

• Income: Federal, State, Corporate (Tax shelters for the elite, Higher taxed individuals create "deductions".)
• Inventory tax IRS Interest Charges
• Provincial Income
• Inflation (A removal of the purchasing power of existent currency)
• Social Security: 12.4% (FICA or OASDI)
• Federal Unemployment: 6.2% on first $7,000 (FUTA), Employment Insurance Tax(EI)
• Property: (Renters, this IS passed along to you in the form of increased rent)
• Real Estate (Mortgage)
• Sales: (County, City, State, Vehicle)
• Capitol Gains: (Many corporations get multi-year exemptions; bailouts), Interest Tax
• Accounts Receivable, Gross Receipts
• Estate: ("Death" tax)
• Inheritance Tax Interest expense
• Utility (Power, Hydro)
• Gasoline (42 cents per gallon)
• Tolls (Airline Surcharge, Airline Fuel Tax, Airport Maintenance Tax, Bridge, tunnel)
• Road Usage
• Luxury Taxes
• Service Charge, Recreational Vehicle , Film Tax (California - Captain America)
• Sin Taxes - (Cigarette, Liquor, Poverty)
• Telephone (federal excise tax, federal universal service fee tax, federal, state and local surcharge taxes, minimum usage surcharge tax, recurring and non-recurring charges tax, state and local tax, usage charge tax)
• Health Tax
• Medicare, Prescription Drug, Hospital Bed - (Wisconsin)
• School Tax

Fees

• Licenses - (Driver's, CDL, Pet, Fishing, Hunting, Food, Marriage)
• Permits - (Building, Zoning, Fuel, Septic, Well)
• Registration (Car, Trailer, Watercraft)
• Mandates
• Service Charge

Fines

• Court
• Misdemeanors "Crimes": (Anti-social tax, Speeding, window tint, recycling)

"Welfare" Programs

• Foreign Bailouts - Greece (IMF$65 billion)
• Foreign Aid - Israel ($200 mil Iron Shield), Germany, North Korea
• Corporate - AIG, GM, TARP, Movies (Thor,
• Technology Subsidies - Ethanol
• Earned Income Credit: EIC
• Food stamps - 39.68 million Americans, $70 billion (5/2010)
• Welfare - 4.4 million people, $22 billion (8/2010)
• Social Security - 51 million Americans (5/2010), $672 billion (2009)
• Housing: (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac ($25 billion))
• Health care
• Unemployment Compensation - 10 million people, $160 billion (8/2010)

• Medicare: (Part D) - 50 million people (8/2010)
• Medicaid: $273 billion
• Postal Service - 2 million employed
• Mortgage Aid program - $1.4 billion (2009) (Feds backed 90% of mortgages in 2009, 96.5% in 2010)
• School
• Primary Education (Dept. of Education)
• Student Loan Program
• Draft/Selective Services - Generational tax; removes family legacies - Many rich can dodge the draft
• Minimum wage - Form of taxation against the most poor/middle class. Removes entry class opportunities

Note: This is a resource and will be updated periodically.