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Because I like my job and don't do it for the money. Therefore what I do make, should be mine to live off, not the government's to redistribute

It is not the taxes per se, but the ideas behind the taxes that many find so objectionable. When determining the tax rate, there are two ways to look at it.

1. It is a rate that determines how much the tax payer gets to keep.

2. It is a rate that determines how much the tax payer owes in taxes.

The first way implicitly suggests that the tax payer does not own the product of his/her labour, but that it belongs to the government and that the government has both the duty and moral obligation to distribute it. I object to this way of thinking as the product of my labour is mine, and mine alone. Furthermore, it is not the role of government to distribute the money I earned; taxes are to pay for the necessary functions of government.

The more the government spends, the more tax payers must pay. I am a tax payer and over 50% of my income goes to taxes of one form or another. Thus, the more government spends, the more I will be paying and the less I get to keep. Or to put it another way, the more the government spends, the more (and harder) I have to work just earn the same amount (after taxes).

Here's an example. If I get paid at a rate of $40/hour and I try to earn an extra $200 dollars a week, it is not an extra 5 hours that I have to work, but more than 10 (because of the tax rate). As the tax rate goes up, I have less incentive to earn more and produce more because I have to work more than twice as hard/long just to keep half of it. Given that, it is not surprising that as the tax rates go up, more people work and produce less. High taxes kill the incentive to create wealth.

Taxes are not meant to be a blank check that the government (or those in/running the government) can cash. Taxes are to paid to cover necessary government functions.

If I don't like paying taxes, my options are limited. I can not pay them (and risk going to jail), or I can "Go Galt" and earn so little that I barely pay anything in taxes. I do not have access to tax shelters, or special foreign bank accounts or whatever may constitue special loop holes that would disallow or hide me from paying.

That's what I have against taxes.

Taxes are a violation of Private Property Rights. Declared in the Declaration of Independence & One of the Inalienable Rights granted in the Constitution. Violated in 1913 with the formation of the Federal Reserve & the Graduated Income Tax System of 1932 that was never ratified by the requirements of Amendments being met. That's WHAT THIS ALL ABOUT, Liberty vs. Tyranny

I don't fear what I'm paying right now. I do fear what I will be paying in the future once government spending is 40% GDP. Conservatives fear tax increases because when government increases taxes they also want to increase spending. And spending seems to increase at a $1 tax increase to $1.50 spending increase. See the problem? My question to you would be, when are taxes high enough? and How large should the Government be? The problem I have with taxes and government growth is that the liberals never seem to be satisfied, government can never be too large for them, and taxes can never be too high.

Good point. Many don't have jobs or, work minimum wage jobs. Which reminds that Obama campaigned on $9.50 an hour for full time workers by 2011. I guess my answer is that Obama doesn't want us to make enough money - except if we are a Union member of course.

A simple common sense solution to losing benefits totally.

If all people currently collecting SSI & SSDI agreed to donate & have a small cut of only $10.00 per month from their monthly check Social security would be out of debt really fast.

A fake example if 50,000 persons x $10.00 = 500,000.00 in one years time.

If you like the solution.

Feel free to cut & paste this answer send it to someone who can do something with this idea.

Seeing how government wastes money who in there right mind would want to give them more, not any one sane.

We don't 'fear' taxes. We just do not believe the waste and fraud of government gives them the Right to keep taking our hard earned money. Instead of being held accountable for their mistakes.

False premise. I probably paid more in taxes last years than you earned. The truth is that we deal rationally with economics and know the government is destroying our economy.

Now, tell us why we should pay more in taxes. A logical reason, not the knee jerk reactionary spoutings with no basis in reality that normally come from the left wingers.

You evidently are unaware of Rangel and Turbo tax timmy to name just a few.