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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by mimikatz on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:49PM (#29003648)
Subtract it from the lower social security costs
Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:04PM (#29003883)
To be consistent, I would then also want to get into opting out of end of life healthcare which is where a huge, if not majority, of healthcare spend is.
Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by conception on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:05PM (#29003906)
Social security is not paid by other taxes. It's its own fund.
Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:07PM (#29003930)
I do not find that clerical accounts for government expenses matter for practical purposes. Nominally, they can have various funding sources, but a politically popular expense will get its funding from somewhere, somehow.

It seems prudent to just treat all monies paid to the federal government as taxes, and all services/products received from the federal government as a whole when accounting for it as an individual taxpayer.

Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by skeeter2020 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:16PM (#29004058)
keeping very sick people alive if way more expensive than keeping older people alive.