What’s Next: Government Taxing
Us To Breathe The Air?
December 22, 2005
By Gordon Bishop
America’s taxpayers are suffocating from oppressive taxation!
Here’s the latest tax New Jersey wants to impose on its 6 million taxpayers, as headlined in the state’s second largest newspaper:
NEW TAX ON TAP WATER CLEARS PANEL
The article in the Asbury Park Press says that “New Jersey households would be taxed about $3 per year for their tap water, if a measure approved by an Assembly panel becomes law.
“The purpose of the tax is to raise $18 million a year for a fund to protect water supplies.”
The $18 million will never be spent to for water protection. It will go into the State’s general treasury and be wasted by hiring more politically-correct bureaucrats. The state’s government, after all, is the biggest employer in New Jersey.
What New Jersey, the federal government and all levels of local and regional governments must do is to downsize government, not continue to bloat the bureaucracies with political party insiders.
I received an incomplete list of TAXES in my e-mail the other day. Our founding fathers went to war and won the American Tax Revolution of 1776. That was to end taxation without representation.
America today has excessive representation and excessive taxation AND
Regulations.
Here’s the incomplete Tax List, folks:
Accountants Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
Capital Gains Tax (a tax on your savings)
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Court Fines (indirect taxes)
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax Interest expense (tax on the money)
Inventory Tax IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Local Income Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Septic Permit Tax
Service Charge Taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax
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 Non-Recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Toll Bridge Taxes
Toll Tunnel Taxes
Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)
Trailer Registration Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
None of these taxes existed 100 years go, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world, had absolutely no debt, had the largest middle class in the world and mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What the hell happened?
Simple. America has become a liberal, socialist, Marxist welfare state.
America, we desperately need another American Revolution before our government bankrupts our socioeconomic society.
New Jersey and California will lead the government bankruptcy bandwagon because they’re already broke!
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Gordon Bishop is a “Who’s Who in America“ nationally syndicated columnist, author, historian and New Jersey’s first “Journalist-of-the-Year” – 1986/New Jersey Press Association.
NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, any copyrighted material herein is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For further information please refer to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
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