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 I resisted the urge to see the film “27 dresses. Title reminds me too much of my monthly bills and credit card.

That’s how it goes, if your daughter is responsible for the preparation of a marriage.

But I am less pay for the bride and his wife Virgin when I am this year in the Federal Constitution, state and local taxes. That says less about the cost of marriage as means of taxation.

A change in perspective can make a huge difference, things like us. Instead of a simple look at your cheque drawn on ethnic or adding a digit on your tax return, take a look at all this:

In each of eight hours a day of work, you spend an average of two hours and 28 minutes to work to pay so far on the part of all taxes art. For comparison purposes, you work at 17 minutes, clothing and accessories, 46 minutes of the agri-food industry, an hour and 19 minutes for housing expenses, and an hour and six minutes for health care .

Excess weight is a national epidemic, and we spend much less a break for lunch to work every day for our lines of the belt pad. Instead, we are vollfressend through taxation.

This breakdown of comity Tax Foundation, an independent research group in Washington. For many years now, there has been an annual assessment at the “Tax Freedom Day” in the United States, is the day that if the average American has enough to pay all its bills taxes for the years, provided they have nothing, but all income tax on Jan. 1.

This year, national Tax Freedom Day, April 23. The good news is that it is three days earlier than last year, mainly because of discounts coming soon. The bad news is that it is much higher than in 1900, when it came Tax Freedom Day, Jan. 22. If you want other perspectives on the eyes, until the payment of taxes absorb 30.8% of total income in this country this year. During the year 1900, it took 5.9 per cent.

The foundation day of freedom by the state, but also. In Utah, the 21st of April this year. This corresponds to the 17th Stronger taxes and charges imposed on the nation, and much later, when the Alaska’s March 29.

If you are really in figures, the annual report on the types of taxes. They work 12 days to make taxes, for 16 days of sales and excise duties and stress for 42 days and federal authorities in the country Income taxes (which makes all the excitement about the Taxes seem somewhat moved). The full report is available at www.taxfoundation.org.

Of course, there is still another perspective on the latter, and this has to do with the purchase of these taxes. That, of course, the arena in which the real fighting.

My concern, at the presentation of these figures is that we may soon look back nostalgically to date. Last week, the Bush administration released a report by Medicare and Social Security on the brink of disaster. Medicare is exhausted its trust fund with the assurance of 2019, and Social Security starts paying more when he received in 2017.

Optimists note that the Social Security Trust Fund does not have the money until 2041, but I wonder where they think that the trust fund money. The government does not have a large vault somewhere where he saves some money. The surplus exists only in the form of government loans. In fact, the income of social security have been designed to meet the needs of other governments. For example, an attack on these funds, the famous Clinton era, the government is not surpluses exist.

Programs running require more taxes - and it is not even begin to take into account the costs of a reform of the health programs could push the next President.

In non-tax increase comes at a price, too. The Tax Foundation notes that while this year’s budget deficit has been observed, Tax Freedom Day, 10 days later.

The word “freedom” has many applications. Once you have finished paying your obligations, you can at any time you spend money, how you want it, fuel economy and will be pleased to help you build wealth. But the more time passes, we are working for taxes, less time we have to work for things like clothing.