Why does the government take so much money away from my gross pay? Do they want me to stay poor forever?

Question

Why does the government take so much money away from my gross pay? Do they want me to stay poor forever?

Answer 1

Someone has to pay for the useless people riding the gov't coattails and all the govt and medical assistance for the illegals.  Welcome to the rest of the hard working tax paying citizens.

Answer 2

Yes - and if Obama gets elected - kiss your paycheck goodbye

Answer 3

Here's an excerpt from a speech given by a Democrat Senator some 25 years ago. His name was Fritz Hollings.

"A man came back from the Korean War and went to college on the GI Bill; bought his house with an FHA loan; saw his kids born in a VA hospital; started a hardware business with SBA loans and advice; got his electricity from TVA, and later his water from an EPA project. His parents retired to a farm on Social Security, a farm on which they got their electricity REA and their soil testing through USDA. When his father became very ill recently, the family was saved from financial disaster thanks to Medicare, and a life was saved with drugs developed through NIH research. His kids participated in the school lunch program; were taught physics and math by teachers retrained in an NSF program; and were able to go to college through the guaranteed student loans. He drove his car to work every day on the interstate, and moored his boat in a channel dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers. When floods hit his town a couple of years back, he took Amtrak to Washington to apply for disaster relief, and, awaiting his meeting, he spent part of his day visiting the Smithsonian Museums and the Washington Monument.

And then, after all that was said and done, he sat down one day and wrote his Congressman an angry letter asking the federal government to get off his back and he complained about paying taxes for all those programs going to ungrateful people who were getting a free ride."

Answer 4

The Democrats want to do away with the word "self sufficient".

Answer 5

That and you have to support all those people on welfare and all their little babies...  plus you have to help pay down the national debt...  

Answer 6

of course not... they just want you to stay poor until you die. After that you can make all the money you want.

Answer 7

No, they don't want you to stay poor forever, unless of course the liberal democrats are in charge...  Then they will take your money because they know what is best for you and will tell you what you should think and feel.  Plus you will then pay more to solve that fake global warming BS!

Answer 8

Yes, poor people are easier to control!

Answer 9

If Obama gets in you will be paying more,Liberals love poor People

Answer 10

yes...then they turn around and say you qualify to assistance. If they would leave the paychecks alone, we wouldn't need assistance from the govt.