Show TIMES HAVE CHANGED if you are a typical family man who earns a year and works the usual eight hour day the tax foundation has some news for you two hours and thirty five minutes of that day go to earn the money needed to pay your taxes direct and indirect much longer than you need work to buy your food almost twice as long as it takes to pay your housing costs and four times as long as for your clothing or transportation i it used to be argued that only wealthy people had any particular interest in the tax question and that the way to meet government costs was to soak the rich how times have changed there arent enough rich people if you took their total income today everybody is soaked to the limit it is the masses of people who have the greatest interest in cutting government spending and the tax bite |