4 taxes unknown 40 years ago

FIRST OFF THE MEDICAL ON A W-2 UNLESS FREE TO YOU, IS TAX DEDUCTIBLE TO MEDICAL EXPENSES. SECOND, NEVER TO MY KNOWLEDGE HAS SS OR UNEMPLOYMENT BEEN FREE, THE EMPLOYEE AND EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTE TO THIS FUND. IF SOMEONE COLLECTS UNEMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYER PAYS ADDL. MONEY FOR NEXT QTR. TAX.  THIS IS TAKEN FROM THE EMPLOYER'S FUND. THEY MUST PAY TO MAKE UP FOR THE UNEMPLOYED WHO COLLECT FROM THE FUND. I DO FEEL ALL THE ADDL. STATE TAXES ON EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN, SHOULD BE DEDUCTIBLE. ALONG WITH UTILITIES TAXING, CABLE TAXES. THESE ARE ADDL. TAXES WE PAY THESE COMPANIES, WHO NEED TO ACCOUNT FOR SUCH TAXES. I AM SURE THEY HAVE A SURPLUS, WHICH SHOULD BE A REBATE TO THE CONSUMERS. WE ARE TAXED TO DEATH AND BEYOND. NO REASON FOR ANYONE TO PAY ADDL. TAX AFTER DEATH. EVER!!! PAID ALL YOUR LIFE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, TAXES WERE PAID IN FULL. SOME STATES ARE KILLING US WITH THE ADDL. TAXES. WE PAY  FEDERAL GOVERNMENT  A TAX, AND THE STATE TOO. IF YOU ASK ME, THIS IS DOUBLE TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. NO ACCOUNTING FOR WHAT WE PAY OR WHERE IT REALLY IS SPENT. THE GOVERNMENT FEELS FREE TO  JUST SPEND OUR MONIES WHERE THEY PLEASE, TO WHOM THEY PLEASE. WHAT WE NEED HERE IS THE IRS TO CHECK ON THE MONIES WE PAY AND FOLLOW UP WITH GOVERNMENT ENTITIES AS TO HOW THE MONIES WERE USED. PUT THE IRS TO A REAL TASK THAT MIGHT BENEFIT ALL.

Any mention of what top federal income tax rates were 40 years ago?  Let's try 70% (down from 91% ten years previous and now down to 35%).  Can't imagine why you've seen more types of taxes.  Think those two things could be related?  I know facts and math are not in the right-wing wheelhouse, but you all are starting to sound utterly absurd.  Let me guess, more tax cuts, that will fix the deficit and reduce the debt?  In reality, your problem isn't tax rates, your problem is that real wages in this country are almost exactly what they were 50 years ago.  This, despite the fact that worker productivity is about 40% higher than it was in 1980.  In fact, your problem is with your employer, but that doesn't fit with the nonsensical diatribe, does it.  Know where it all goes?  All of your precious CEO's (who think it unpatriotic to pay taxes).  Over roughly this same time frame, they went from making, on average, about 40-50 times what the lowest paid worker in their company made.  Now, it is almost 500 times.   Go shake your fist at your boss, geniuses!