Interesting Article about the real purpose of the US Federal Tax Co

[GreatLakesGramma]

I never thought of it this way, but he does have a point.

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What are the health consequences of the tax season burden on American taxpayers?

Thursday, April 15, 2010

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) It's tax season in the U.S. again, and when it comes to discussions about the financial burden on the economy from the complexity of the current U.S. tax code, most of the criticisms focus on the number of dollars (or hours) spent in compliance. According to a study from the Tax Foundation, U.S. taxpayers spend over 6 billion hours and over $256 billion working to comply with the current tax code. That's a lot of dollars and hours, but it may pale in comparison to yet another cost: The health consequences of the stress caused by the U.S. tax code.

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[GoLions]

I know its very stressful for me, and I always get money back!

[Bravus]

Surely the real 'effects' rather than the real 'purposes'? Unless you're suggesting that the tax is *meant* to make people sick? Who would that serve? Ah, I know - the IRS is a front for Big Pharma!

(light joking tone, not heavy sarcastic fight-starting tone, intended throughout!)

[karl]

If it didn't make you sick, how could you be "taxed to death?"

[GreatLakesGramma]

Surely the real 'effects' rather than the real 'purposes'? Unless you're suggesting that the tax is *meant* to make people sick?

Of course, I did not write the article & am not suggesting anything. But what I got out of it is that the real purpose of the tax code is redistribution of wealth, from the poor/middle class to the filthy rich. That was an eye-opening thought, and I think he's got it right.

All the supposed benefits they give us ordinary people are really just carrots on a stick to keep us voting for them, so they can continue to enrich themselves and their cronies. They promise big, but they don't deliver. For example, disability income is so difficult to get in the first place, and so hard to keep once you get it, that those who need it the most can't manage the continual fight, and unless they have a very strong-willed advocate, they are left out in the cold.