With federal income tax filing day recently having passed, some people have heaved a sigh of relief that the annual ordeal is over.
But some are still suffering from the shock of realizing how much of their earnings government is taking — even as it spends so much that it runs about $1.5 trillion in the red annually.
Do you wonder why more Americans do not vociferously object to the huge amount of their earnings that the federal government takes from them?
One reason is that nearly half of our people pay no federal income taxes at all! Legally!
Does that surprise you?