Tax Day By The Numbers

Each year on April 15, Americans file their taxes which go to subsidize a government that is increasingly reckless in its spending. This video takes a look at the numbers behind the taxes. For more on reforming America's tax policy, visit http://www.heritage.org.

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• tax reform

[bertly71]

Every dollar sent to the government is less freedom for us. The number they quoted did not include state, county, and city, taxes. Licenses, fees, permits, sales tax......... National Taxpayers Union estimates we are working for the government until the middle of August when you include everything,

[PatriotWatchUSA]

@robertmike57 Hahahahaha you are kidding. Obama will spend in 2 OVER what Bush did in 8.

Wake up fuit

[MrRazzeldazzel88]

HEY REPUBLICANS, EVER THINK THAT MAYBE YOU COULD REDIRECT MONEY FROM THE WAR I IRAQ AND PUT IT TOWARDS HELPING SICK PEOPLE? WOW ITS CRAZY I KNOW

[seahorse05]

@RADAREALIST The issue that "conservatives," Republicans and republican Tea people think is the problem with Obama and Democrats. And that is the National Debt. The facts: Reagan 1.9 Trillion; HW Bush: 1.5; Clinton: 1.4; GW Bush 6.4; Obama: 2.4. Last 30 years of added National Debt: Democratic Party Presidents: 3.8 Trillion Dollars. Republican Party Presidents: 9.8 Trillion Dollars

Nothing "conservative" about the nearly 10 Trillion GOP/conservative created debt problem.

[nowheretosit]

@muta157 - I'm sure you mean what the "conservatives" have done. For the problem has resulted from the entrenched corruption of the republicans and the democrats who refuse to change their pro-war cradle to grave ways. Liberals on the other hand, by definition seek to change the way things have been.

[JonnyPxN]

No one likes paying taxes. But I like hospitals/schools/Firefighters­/Police officers/ Public transport/ Child benefits/ Roads/ Care homes/ National Parks/ The coastguard. So I pay them anyway. Also, people in the USA whine about taxes, yet compared to many European countries, you have it lucky! What is your sales tax- 6.5%? 7%? Uk's is 20 %! If you want to get rid of the deficit, cut the non essential spending like the bloated military wars, and raise taxes, dont cut them, whats the point?!

[RADAREALIST]

It's amazing. Less than a year after this video was made the national debt is 2 trillion dollars greater. Frightening facts.

[muta157]

And there are actually people happy that health care is "free" now. What no foreign nation could do in war from the outside, the liberals have done from the inside.

[Trollmaster21]

@MrConservative1776 To blindly give the GOP another chance to do what they never did, shows you have the same victim like complex a battered woman does when she keeps returning to her abusive husband. How many times do you insist on getting fooled by the same people?

You stand for conservative values, as little as Ivan the Terrible stood for advancements in human rights.

[Trollmaster21]

@MrConservative1776 If the GOP had the answers, they they would have not got voted out on their asses in 2006 and 2008. If you're conservative and voting for the GOP then you vote is a 100% waste. The trillion or so we borrowed on the Iraq war is an issue. By you saying otherwise you prove you're not a real conservative. I for one want to assure maximum GOP losses so we don't make such a huge mistake with our tax dollars another time.

[MrConservative1776]

@Trollmaster21 I do not support a third party because the GOP has the answers. The Iraq War is coming to a close as troops are being fully withdrawn by November of 2011. So that's not an issue. Also, the borrowing and spending has been going on since the days of Jimmy Carter, and I don't like it when a Republican does it. The tax cuts in '02 and '03 were not for the rich exclusively. It was for all middle-class and working Americans. And who gives the middle-class the jobs? Oh I know, the rich!!

[Trollmaster21]

@MrConservative1776 and if you were truly conservative you would be supporting a 3rd party....do you?

I'm against the GOP because I don't want my tax dollars going to pay for wars I never agreed with, or tax cuts on the most richest of Americans. Surely you can't blame me can you?