Happy Tax Day
April 23rd, 2009 - 9:52 am
Rasmussen finds that people are getting more fed up with taxes:
ith the annual ritual of filing federal income taxes just behind them, 52% of U.S. voters now believe they pay more than their fair share of taxes, up seven points from earlier this month.
But 54% of the Political Class don’t think they pay too much, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Here’s one of those situations where some see the glass as half-empty, others as half-full. To me, it looks increasingly like the government has both its hands on my glass, and is telling me when I may or may not have a sip.
So very True!
But 54% of the Political Class don’t think they pay too much, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
A lot depends on which “they” they’re talking about. If the Political Class believes they don’t pay too much in taxes, it could be because so many of them are cheating on their taxes. Regardless, they can always contribute more than the bottom line on their 1040 if they want to pay more taxex. However, (as I suspect), the “they” that the Policial Class is talking about are the rest of us, then it just goes to show how out of touch our Mandarins are.
The Political Class doesn’t pay too much in taxes, unless they get caught.
It’s easier for the political class to think their tax burden isn’t too much when so much of their day to day overhead-per diems, travel expenses, fully subsidized benefits with insignificant co-pays and low deductibles, third party funded pensions, X plans, tax free housing allowances, provided vehicles- expenses the rest of us have to contend with and budget, is passed off.
Opportunity cost.
Same thing with some junketing journalist with an expense account.
Isn’t Geithner as member of the Political Class? There’s yer trouble.