How high do income taxes have to get before Americans just stop working?

in Taxes

Rex Feral asked:

If you add up all the taxes you pay now, Fed. Income tax, FICA, Social Security, State tax, City tax, Local tax, Property tax, Sales tax, Gas tax, etc., already most of your income goes toward paying taxes.

What percentage will be too much. Will you work when every penny you earn goes to pay your taxes or will you just say to hell with it all?

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14 comments

Rosie the Queen MILF on July 30, 2009 at 11:39 pm

If I can not live with my income then I will just stop working and live with friends or relatives while taking my government handout.
Erick on July 31, 2009 at 6:46 pm

We’ll see in the next few years, lol.
Reality has a Liberal Bias on August 1, 2009 at 2:24 pm

It’s not even close to 100%, give me a break. And Obama is *cutting* taxes for middle-class Americans.

I’ve been at the top tax bracket, and it didn’t bother me, since I was still making a ton of money.
Daze on August 3, 2009 at 12:59 pm

If that happens, at least we’ll get a siesta between 1-4pm every day… like Europe with their high taxes.

But if we dont get a siesta? Then no deal!
whimsy on August 6, 2009 at 7:33 pm

Most of the taxes you list above have NOTHING to do with income.

the biggest waste is the local city, county as well as state taxes, and it is these that need to be addressed.
Voddy C on August 8, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Well Skid mark wants you to pay even more, someone has to pay for all his free abortions and methadone clinics and govt. financed ghetto housing!
Dallas S on August 8, 2009 at 10:47 pm

LOL…good question!
I've moved to Bermuda on August 10, 2009 at 3:14 am

people wouldn’t all stop working at the same time
Obama would order the lazy riftraft at gunpoint to go to work
the same as what was done in the Soviet Union
grump56 on August 12, 2009 at 8:45 am

Go to work at a fast food joint. Less money, less taxes. Rent, don’t own. I pay plenty in taxes but I do not want to trade with someone on welfare. Do you?
Chin T on August 15, 2009 at 12:28 am

The largest problem this country is now facing is that Obama will not allow us to manufacture anything, he is bought off by the globalist who are going to have him sign the Kyoto Protocol at a 13.9% reduction in all emissions. Hence our dollar which is a promissory note for grains of silver, (or should I say a promissory note for a promissory note) will soon be worth about as much as a rock.
Trade your money in NOW for a commodity that will maintain value, the US is finished.
Worldly25 on August 16, 2009 at 6:41 pm

When you add what you posted plus all the tax already added onto utility bills and registrations and licensing fees (just another name for tax) we are already past 60%. There is not one thing we do that is not taxed by some municipality in one way or another. We will keep working since we do like eating.
She says XIV on August 20, 2009 at 12:10 am

Many people eventually go this route, end up on welfare, and stay there because it is easier. Expect more of this with Obama at the helm.
ducky on August 23, 2009 at 2:32 am

only conservatives worry about such things
Ink Corporate on August 23, 2009 at 8:33 am

They wont stop working they’ll just evade their taxes