The United States Should Neglect Taxes In The US

The citizens of the United States have always had debate on taxes and how to manage the national budget, and how any of those things would affect the economy. When this nation was founded, it was made clear that the taxes put upon them by Great Britain were not fair in the eyes of the citizens, for two main reasons. The first was that the taxes were too high, this was because everything was taxed, including legal documents, so you could never avoid paying a tax on anything. The second was that there was no representation in the Americas in Great Britain, meaning that everyone in the Americas had no say in these taxes whatsoever. Today, the United States has followed their own rules, and have no taxation without representation, and taxes have lowered comparatively to the British taxes. However, even still the United States has had much debate on how the US should collect taxes, use the money, and manage the national budget. …show more content…
The main forms of taxation most people know are sales tax and income tax. These taxes are charged on both a federal and state level. Sales tax is a tax that is charged as a percentage of the cost of an item (some states do not tax food, some do not tax clothes, it varies a lot from state to state), so the more an item costs, the more will be due in a tax. Income tax is a direct tax on a person’s income, meaning that a percentage of your paycheck is taken out for tax reasons. These taxes are not simply ways the government gets money for their budget, however, the money that is paid in taxes is used to fund government agencies such as social security, which benefits