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At least our administration doesnt take half of our income in taxes

Actually our tax burden is higher than half.

Lets see: Fed tax rate: 39, NY State and city: 12 Sales Tax: 8 property taxes: variable but large.

Note that our "tax cuts" of the past four years have actually caused an increase in our total taxes. Most state taxes and fees for services have increased. Only the myopic think that our taxes have gone down in the past four years.

Yet, our schools suck, large parts of the population has no health care, most Americans get little vacation time. Right now we are doing very little well, except spending money in Afghanistan to reduce the cost of Opium on our streets and in Iraq to increase the number of people willing to die in the name if Islam.