Re: Food Checkout Week

In article <hsdp75xbd5.ln2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Nate Edel) wrote:

> Joy Beeson <jbeeson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > The Farm Bureau was careful to mention  that Food Checkout Week is two
> > months before Tax Freedom Day. 
> 
> "Tax Freedom Day" being April 15th, or the hypothetical and totally
> misleading day which some conservatives claim you have to work until
before
> you've earned enough to pay your taxes?

The latter is how it is used.

> I'm bugged by the latter notion, since it totally ignores the point that
> taxes are pro****tional to one's income (and thus, for most folks, to the
> ****tion of the year you actually work.)

Since you want money for lots of purposes, you don't simply work until 
you can pay all the taxes on income so far and then stop--which you 
could do by not working at all. Hence it is meaningful to ask what 
pro****tion of your income goes as taxes and express that as how much of 
the year you actually work goes to earn the money that goes to taxes.

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