Reply #35: Nobody making $12K

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should be paying any taxes. But it just goes to show one of the benefits of marriage, which is that it is an economic patnership. It always has been. Primitive societies, or so they taught me in my anthropology classes many years ago, knew of "romantic" love, but never, ever considered it as the basis of marriage.

Even the primitive Digger Indians (hey, no comments please on whatever the current PC designation is, this is from 40 year old memories) knew that neither a man nor a woman was capable of living alone and surviving in the harsh conditions they lived in.

But back to the tax question. Taxes are way too high in America. This is a sticky question because there are numerous functions that need to be funded. I am not disputing that. Yet I see numerous examples of waste, not counting the military. Excessive salaries for top administrators, fraud and corruption in building and construction, projects that are not needed, simply pork.

But worse than the amount or rates of the taxes is the enforcement by the IRS. I will repeat what I have said numerous times elsewhere on this board: the IRS is the closest institution to the SS that wwehave in America.