Originally posted by Local2
There is no surplus left......
It's the income tax.
Lets see some numbers:
280 million citizens
250 million paying taxes
200 million of these people have salaries about 35,000 per year
Taxes on that salary is $6,000
Thats $1,200,000,000,000 (1.2 trillion USD) per year
Lets not forget about the 50 or so million people who make way too much money, that equals $0 (Tax shelters!)
You do the math............
You forgot corporate income taxes...they help to.
But yeah it is tax dollars that are spent...our money...that is why we have elections so people can represent us on how it is spent.