Libertarian Party of Connecticut

By Marc Guttman

Although many of us think of the middle of April as the “tax season,” the Tax Foundation’s calculations have found that in 2007 the average American taxpayer finished paying off his or her yearly tax burden on April 30. That is, we have worked from Jan. 1 until April 30 to pay our share of income taxes, social insurance taxes, sales and excise taxes, and property taxes. “Americans will work longer to pay for government than they will for food, clothing and housing combined,” said Tax Foundation President Scott A. Hodge. Since we, in Connecticut, have chosen to tax ourselves the most, the average Connecticut taxpayer was not paid up until May 20.
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