A neat email my coworker sent me by way of his uncle, obviously a repug

[Demonaut]

thought I'd share and see your responses . 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 cow,
& nbsp; 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, then< FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="12">
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his a--.

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 g ood 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,
It's time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable T ax Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax &nb sp; Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax Food License Tax,
Fuel permit tax Gasoline Tax(42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax &nb sp; Inheritance Tax
Interest expense Inventory tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax
Property Tax Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes Social Security Tax
Road usage taxes Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle 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 non-recurring 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 & nbsp; Workers Compensation Tax


COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world, had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the h#*# happened


My response.....Progress happened, the inheritance tax only applies to estates worth in excess of 2 MILLION DOLLARS and some of these taxes are meant to maintain infrastructure and extend services to more citizens

[havocmom]

1. 100 years ago, the US was hurtling toward the Great Depression

Just to put it all in context.

[JanMichael]

5. Put it in an even greater context....the US was also trying to recover

from a depression.

[NewJeffCT]

25. Depressions were fairly regular

in the "Industrial Revolution"/Robber Baron era from after the Civil War to the Great Depression of 1929. I think every 20 years or so.

Notice that once FDR got in place after the last Depression we have not had any depressions since?

[iconoclastic cat]

2. We had a thriving middle class in 1906? Bull fucking shit. nt

[JanMichael]

3. Yep...."Mom" stayed home with her nasty abusive alcoholic husband

because she didn't have a choice.

The road system was horrible; damn near non-existant.

Hope you are white. And a boy.

Public schools? Ha!

I could keep right on keeping on, but I will end with, "Thank God I didn't live back then."

[Warpy]

4. 100 years ago our nation may have been prosperous

but its people were not. It was the dying gasp of the Robber Baron era, when government had been bought by the wealthy few and the hard working many, who created the wealth, got even less of a share of it than they do now.

This is just a plea to end the inheritance tax, which has an exemption so generous that only the heirs of the modern Robber Barons pay it.

The only way to answer this horse shit is to call the inheritance tax repeal the Paris Hilton welfare program.

[Ravy]

6. Progress happened. And population.

It takes money to pay for roads and other infrastructure. And military, and police to keep things more or less safe.

Tax cuts for someone are essentially a tax increase for someone else- someone has to pay for it all to work (unless we borrow more for our grand kids to pay back). How prosperous would our country be without roads and airpots? How safe would we be with no police? How would you know without television, radio, and the Internet?

[radfringe]

7. got something similar a few weeks ago

I replied to the "sender" and asked that in the past 6 years how many of these taxes have been repealed by the republicans and which ones did he personally benefit from being repealed?

[Shipwack]

8. A 100 years ago we didn't have national highway system...

Or a huge military that made up a obscene percentage of the budget.

Also, wasn't the tax bracket on the wealthy something like 90%?

Other nits to pick...

An IRS penalty is, well, a penalty for not paying taxes... not a -tax-...

There's no "marriage license tax" either, though there might be a "fee".

And most people don't pay an inheritance tax.

[ComerPerro]

17. not to mention affordable cars, TV, the internet, national news,

widespread usage of telephones, or child labor laws.

[Renew Deal]

9. I think rewriting the tax code from scratch is a winning issue.

Sometimes you need to perform maintenance on any system. The tax system is overhauled. There are taxes coming from every direction. Someone should take the system, break it down and rebuild.

[zreosumgame]

10. also less then 100 million people

and the only prosperity seen was in the families of robber-barons (who BTW were the ones who set-up the conditions that still plague us in Central and South America. the results we see in the booming 'invasion' of illegals from those areas and all those Death Squads, as well as the Cuban Revolution that installed Castro. And that is the short list. Hey, Thanks LOADS you assholes a hundred years ago!) and their pet politicians. just like the present neo-cons are trying to drag us back into.

[GDAEx2]

11. paying taxes is patriotic! why do you hate America?

eom

[meatloaf]

12. Considering we still haven't paid France back what we borrowed to conduct

the revolutionary war, I'd say this piece is fraudulant. This country has never been debt free.

[Dunedain]

13. Visit the cemetery's in Normandy

and then tell me if you think we as a country haven't made good on that debt.

[JanMichael]

15. Then can we forgive other countries debts because their soldiers died

for the US?

How many corpses should equal say, 1,000 dollars? Do we start putting a dollar ammount on them?

[Demonaut]

20. few if any soldiers of any country have died on our soil to liberate

or protect us since the revolutionary war, I think that was his point.

[Dunedain]

33. No

Why are you asking me a question you already know the answer to?
Of course there is no monetary value to life.
Who would ever argue such a thing?
I implied that by saying "Hey, what about those fields of stone?"?
Juxtaposing his example was to impart scale, perspective, why the petty criticism
of something; just because for the moment, it is being run by a bunch of thieves?

The only thing I agreed with in the statement would have been when the poster called the OP a "fraudulent piece".

[bleedingheart]

14. People died of starvation in the streets if this "great" country 100 years

ago...

My grandfather worked for a $1 a day for company script a 100 years ago....boy those were the good ole days when you owed your soul to the company store.

yup...and try and unionize....and they would even fire bullets at you...

[ComerPerro]

16. Conservatives took over and starting fucking the country, that's what

Its called "Reaganomics"

They shifted the taxex off the rich and onto the rest of America.


And, last time I checked, the USA was still prosperous...

[Squeech]

18. Moreover

a hundred years ago, employers had their employees shot if they "agitated," i.e. demanded more money or safer workplaces. Do we want to go back to that?

[Bridget Burke]

19. 100 years ago, my grandmother was hoping to be a teacher.

She was in school & her father was a bricklayer. But he got drunk & broke his leg in a fall--until he healed, the family had NO income. Mom & Sis were in delicate health. So my grandmother quit school & went to work as a telephone operator.

My grandmother had jobs for most of the rest of her life. Between & during most of those "jobs" she was a wife & mother in the country, raising crops, chickens & pigs. I think she bred dogs for a while--cocker spaniels & boston terriers. In her later years, she managed the elementary school cafeteria.

My other grandmother came over from Ireland & worked in the mills until she married. Her husband joined the police force, but died early. After they'd had five kids. Her life was not easy, either.

[orleans]

21. crap like that really pisses me off. if these unpatriotic assholes

don't want to pay taxes to improve the country in which we live why the hell don't they fucking LEAVE and go live somewhere else (without roads, hospitals, clean water, fire departments, police departments, public libraries, etc etc)

"During the Great Depression of the 1930s, shanty towns appeared in cities across the United States because of the massive unemployment. Some were nicknamed "Hoovervilles" because the residents blamed the economic conditions on then President Herbert Hoover, who did not believe in government interference in an attempt to end the depression."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanty_town

[roamer65]

22. No nat'l debt? Wrong!

The US has always had a national debt and it usually balloons under Rethuglican admins, even as far back as Lincoln. Raisinbrain has increased the national debt more than any president in American history. Period.

[LSK]

23. DO THESE FUCKING MORONS KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY

FOR THE GOP SPENDING??????

:grr:

[LSK]

24. 100 YEARS AGO CHILDREN WORKED

:wtf:

[Demonaut]

32. thank the repugs for the industrial revolution...

[electron_blue]

26. Yeah and it's a myth that mom was home with the kids... Mom was working he

butt off - either on a farm or elsewhere. The 1950's +/- is the only time a large percentage of moms stayed home with kids.

[bif]

27. They probably don't pay taxes in Somalia

Maybe he'd like to move there.

[lukasahero]

28. The word that jumps out at me, of course, is "him"

This stanza sums up how these people think:

"Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed."

'Nuff said.

"Mom stayed home to raise the kids." Lucky mom. Of course, she didn't have a choice if that wasn't what she wanted. Officially, 100 years ago, she couldn't vote. But I'm sure the man who sent that couldn't care less about that. (I hate these f*in jerks.)

[NewJeffCT]

29. in 1906

This is off the top of my head, I can come up with more if I have 15-20 minutes to research:

In 1906,

blacks were “separate but equal” and women were not allowed to vote.

There were no laws barring child labor

There were no laws barring sweat shops

There was no OSHA to enforce workplace safety.

There was no such concept as a 40 hour work week – 80 hour weeks were not uncommon, and most often it was for peanuts while working in a sweat shop.

Injured on the job – you’re fired if you can’t perform. Worker’s comp? Ha ha ha!

Health insurance? Only if you’re rich.

Environmental laws to make sure your water is clean and food is healthy? Fat chance.

A factory is spewing mercury into the local rivers? Good luck trying to stop them.

Pensions? What is that? Let alone 401Ks, and anybody but the very wealthy owning stock.

Good luck putting your money in a bank – who knows if it will be open tomorrow? Bye bye money.

[joeunderdog]

30. Fund IRAQ. Fund Homeland Security. Fund MediCare with no option to

get deals on medication.
Fund the Big Dig.
Fund Enron trials.
Fund GOP Pork Barrel deals.
Fund Unemployment for the Outsourced.
Fund Katrina without an ounce of prevention.
Fund GOP bribes.
Fund CIA OUTINGS by the Bush Administration.

And ON and ON and ON and ON.....

Yeah, I wonder about taxes, too.

[LeftishBrit]

31. 100 years ago, the average life expectancy was under 50...

and one-sixth of all babies born never reached their first birthday.

While medical discoveries and advances have played an important part in the changes since then, public health measures and better nutrition have been really important as well - and you can't get these without taxes.