BenGunn on Nostr: Tax is more like 95% of your life. income tax capital gains tax sales tax ...

Tax is more like 95% of your life.

income tax
capital gains tax
sales tax
duties/tariffs
road/property/local municipality taxes
death tax
stamp duty
corporation tax

Then the tax you pay in the price of goods where all the above taxes drop into the price of the good/service from businesses (payroll etc).

Then the fees and fines related to correct payments (accountancy, tax advice). And the time spend doing it.

and then inflation for the 5% left.

We're farmed. About 1% left of life after all those layers are applied.

Take a dollar for a walk through the system and you'll have about 1 cent left after 2 cycles.

quoting note1aph…cugs

The government is literally stealing your life with taxes and fiat monetary inflation…

As a conservative example:

You start working at 20.
You work until you’re 65.
You pay +/- 33% of your income in taxes.

The government takes 1/3 of your working life…

They have stolen **15 YEARS** of your time, energy, and work.

And for what?

For roads? (LOLOLOL)

For a broken education system?

For a medical system that wants to keep you sick and medicated?

For the military industrial complex which gets rich off foreign forever wars you never agreed to?

And while they are stealing 1/3 of your life, they are PRINTING MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR, stealing MORE of your time/energy/life force through the destruction of your purchasing power.

The taxes you pay don’t even fund the government; an ever-growing pile of national debt does, fueled by money created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve System. The dollars in your bank account are worth less and less every year, as your purchasing power is systematically destroyed.

I am grateful #Bitcoin exists so I can opt out of this nonsense and save the value of my time and energy.

Anyway, have a beautiful day.