Reason.tv: W-2 WTF?!?! Tax Facts to Make Your Head Explode!

Recently from Reason.tv, more relevant on April 15 than most days:

Is it patriotic to pay taxes? And if so, who the most patriotest Americans? Who are the least? How many words are in the tax code? How much do patriotic Americans pay to prepare their taxes? How long do you have to work in a year to earn enough to pay your taxes?

The answers to these and other questions add up to one big W-2 WTF.

Produced by Meredith Bragg. Written by Bragg and Nick Gillespie.

Comments

[frege]

I am sure that as with other measures of patriotism, Republicans and Libertarians are the most patriotic, and Democrats and Communist Party members are the least.

[Jesse Taylor]

Assuming you're talking about income taxes:

If you work one day, you worked long enough to pay your taxes. If you work 365 days, you worked long enough to pay your taxes. That's sort of the point of taxes. It's an asinine question otherwise.

[jim]

It's only asinine because you don't like the implications of the answer.

[cubanbob]

If its patriotic to pay taxes then everyone should pay the same amount since every one benefits equally, besides why should taxes be any different than voting?

[Nick Reynolds]

If the Founders intended for average wage earners to pay an income tax it would have been written into the Constitution. It wasn't instituted until 1913. If it's legal and 'patriotic' (Biden is such a douche), why do you have to sign the form every year, giving the IRS permission to tax? Hmm . . . I guess my views a are covered by the new DHS pamphlet. Welcome to the new USSR . . . United States Socialist Republic. Nice.

[dbcooper]

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