@traumaviper97's Review of City Moment · St. Louis - St. Louis, US

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The video presents a commentary on the pervasive nature of taxation in everyday life, delivered by a man in a suit speaking directly to the camera against a backdrop of the American flag. He outlines ...

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How did we go from fighting a revolution over a 2% tax on a breakfast beverage to what we pay today? And we're taxed on money when we receive it, when we spend it, when we keep it, when we invest it, and even when we die with it. It gets worse. We commute to work to make that money in a car that is taxed again to register on roads we're already taxed to build, fueled by gas that is taxed even further, and many times through tolls that tax you again. And that's to maintain bridges and highways. tunnels that already have billions of dollars taxpayer dollars allocated to them and they're still falling apart and then when you get to your office that is taxed to exist in a corporation that all is also taxed to do business that almost certainly requires permits and other things which are another tax you are paid a paycheck that the corporation much match another payroll tax on top of what they have to pay you then you go to a home of which you are taxed to own every single year that we bought with money that the government already taxed us on.