Why does no one talk about how much the top 1% make off the rest of us taxpayers?
I mean our tax dollars going right into their pockets. Think about it. Some of those guys are way in the black when it comes to taxes.
A high paid corporate office who's company does a lot of business with the federal and state/s government. He or she is raking in a fortune, and it's our tax dollars. What they pay in taxes, especially if they use all the tricks available, is a joke compared to what they pull in. Some real analysis might show most of them come out way ahead in net tax dollars. Yet they have the bumpkins convinced they are taxed to death!
They buy Congessman and pay lobbyists a fortune. Who believes they are buying a system where they get the short end of the stick?
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Said friend lives in a $1 million home in the Bay Area. Me = no such luck not that I'd really want it.
What comes with this mindset is a sickness and a hatred.
The hatred is one of the poor and the working class and the biggest fear of all is the Unions.
What they have is already more than enough and they shall never have enough and it seems many sit around criticizing persons such as myself that lives on a poverty level income through no fault of my own.
And yet I get a call asking me "Do you pay taxes?". Answer = I'd love to pay taxes for that would mean I have some sort of an steady and reliable income that is no longer there for me.
Taxes they say? I don't get it really as I was "reminded" of the "fact" that Pres. Obama "stole" $5 billion from Medicare. 
Why would anyone care to live somewhere that taxes are not paid and the place they live in becomes a ruin of no value nor use and fabricate the validity of a lie such as the example given above as some sort of disjointed truth. Thank you Ms. Bachmann but no, I do not believe your carved in soapstone 1% lies.
Join a Union and fight the good fight *again* is my only advice for the worker today.
That is about all "we" meaning the lower/middle class have left by a shoe string it is beginning to look like at times sadly as folks just don't "get" it when it comes to the empowered worker that has found a voice and a vehicle for change called a "Union".
So let the awholes move somewhere that has no taxes so to speak. They are now looking at moving to Nevada, Arizona or New Mexico.
I think they'd be quite uncomfortable really. Maybe they would not have as many taxes to pay but maybe if they lived in a less affluent life style it would not be such a big issue.
Taxes are something I never really think about. I pay taxes as everyone living in society does in a variety of ways besides filing taxes.
I couldn't believe it really. This person actually had the nerve to ask me if I paid taxes last year and how much.
Said person can just go away and leave me alone because I really cannot be bothered with such stupidity at this point in my life.
It is all about that one word: GREED. 
As for your friend, I'm sure he'll manage somehow, but I hope he doesn't find himself in line for food stamps or something just plain awful like that!
We live in a very sick world IMO.
and they choose to live in this.
And yes, the property taxes are high on an expensive old dump like they are living in. They don't like it so let them move to some cheap dump.
They might save a few on the taxes but all of their other "expenses" (as you mention above) will not go away. Nope.
Sad world, very sad indeed. 
