Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> At 12:37 PM 9/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> >
> > > I can't say about the USA, but here in Brazil the only professions
> > > that seem to have any perspective of success are drug dealers
> > > and tax collectors. The tax collectors will extort money from the
> > > drug dealers, and the drug dealers will sell drugs to the tax
> > > collectors. The most recent estimation is that honest workers
> > > are sucked in 5 months per year of their income to support
> > > state's parasitism.
> >
> >I think someone calculated that, on average, in the US, all wages up to
> >some time in May would have to be paid in taxes. Don't remember the
> >magical date, though.
> >
> > Julia
>
> That is of course the Tax Freedom Day.
>
> http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxfreedomday.html
>
> Which has been April 19 for the last two years, down from a high of April
> 30, 2000.
>
> And next year it will be even earlier.
Coulda sworn it was around May 6 or so at some point.... Thanks!
Julia
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