Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Why Do We HATE Paying Taxes?" video.

@RedLeader327 You sir, are correct. When you hear about stupid spending like that bridge to nowhere in Alaska from years back, it's usually not enough to really worry about. It usually does have a purpose and is important to some people. The big one is the military spending, if we cut that and got the compliance rate for the ultra-wealthy to where they're actually paying the taxes that they're already on the hook for, we would have more than enough money to solve homelessness in America, ~20bn a year; Medicare for All, ~100bn a year and provide free college for everybody that wants it. We'd even have savings left over to pay down the national debt so that our adversaries don't have that leverage over us.
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@CalebCalixFernandez In a way it's rather sad when the US doesn't have things that nations that our politicians claim are failed states have. We also don't have postal banks like many other nations have. If you're going to ensure banking access to everybody, a postal bank makes sense as post offices tend to be distributed through as much of a given country as possible. Few things are more widespread in a typical country than postal service.
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That's a gross exageration. I've lived in a 2nd world and the US is still generally better off than that. But, there are definitely pockets that are legit 3rd world level of development like some of the poorer reservations and parts of Appalachia where running water and electricity aren't yet available.
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That sounds nice. To operate a business in the US, you need city permits for every city that you do business in. Licenses from every county and state as well. And that's on top of the federal taxes that you have to have paperwork filed with. All of them have different rules and regulations about what is and isn't taxable. Some of them do it based on business property, like my county, some do it based on income like the federal government and others tax based on sales. It's a real mess and if you're just sole proprietorship, as in working by yourself for yourself, you have to hire a tax accountant or spend huge amounts of time figuring things out in most cases. The county here literally requires that you report everything that you use, even if it wasn't purchased by the business, so if you do work from home, you're technically supposed to register and pay based on everything you used, even if it's not owned by the business. So, if you take your laptop from the desk to the couch to do your work, you're technically supposed to list both, even if you're just working from home that day. They do give you $15k worth of assets before you have to pay property taxes on it, but it's ridiculous and in some cases, especially with second hand goods or ones that you owned before opening the business, you may not even know how much to declare for the purposes of taxes.
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First off, the IRS doesn't help get a fire truck to me, that's state and we don't even have income tax here. Secondly, I don't mind paying my taxes personally, it drives me crazy that people with far more money than I do wind up paying a significantly lower rate even as they hoard opportunities and wealth.
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Luís Andrade That's true, the problem tends to be that the people don't agree as to which spending is the problem. As long as there isn't a clear majority on one side or the other, it makes it really challenging to get any of it fixed.
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