Holy taxes poor working girls!

[Donkey]

And I am glad about the % of my tax dollars that go to feed the hungry and educate our youth.

Would you mind paying my % too? Because I don't give a shit about feeding hungry folks I don't know or dumping more money into the black hole known as the education system.

[kensterling]

Soviets have gone to a 13 percent flat tax and Raoul Castro of Cuba is privatizing as many goverment agencies as he can. Says he can't afford to pay people for not working.
Funny how "our fomer enemies" are much more capitalistic then we are!
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. always said that politics runs in 30-40 years cycles. Looks like he is being proven true. Seems when the left or right goes to far, it always gets brought back the other way. Guess that is the beauty of the two party system.
Anyway, back on topic, my high end clients are older, so I suspect that should not slip too much. I do think the casual traveller to NYC or NJ will not be spending.
Just some thoughts, try to stay out of politics.

[fivekatz]

Would you mind paying my % too? Because I don't give a shit about feeding hungry folks I don't know or dumping more money into the black hole known as the education system.

American exceptionalism at its best!

[RallyCola]

If you are the type of individual that will actually feel the tax increase, i contest that you don't make enough money. I do not want to give the government any more of my income than I already am forced to do but the change in taxes will change nothing for me.

[thombergeron]

wait...i just realized...i'm out almost $3k a year....OUCH...well....there goes that trip to Colombia!

So you make $150K/year, and you're concerned that your payroll taxes are now returning to the $9,300/year that you were paying up until 2 years ago, rather than the $6,300 that you were assessed in 2011 and 2012?

This is what's often referred to as a "first-world problem."