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Why do government employees pay income taxes?
Government employees' salaries are paid for by taxes levied by the government on the labour income of employees among other. Why do governments not simply pay their own employees tax-free salaries?
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Why did the U.S. government lower the funding of the IRS?
Also needed: better tax enforcement through restored and increased
funding of the IRS. An expert review of data released by the
Congressional Budget Office and the Treasury Department indicates that
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What does it mean when something is said to be "owned by taxpayers"?
There are 470,000 results on Google Search for "owned by taxpayers". Some excerpts:
RBS remains 62% owned by taxpayers after a 45 billion pound bailout in the 2008 financial crisis.
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Is there a summary of Johnson's government plans to defund the BBC (assuming this is correct)?
According to CNN Johnson's government
announced plans that pave the way to removing the BBC's public funding model. Johnson's government has been locking horns with the BBC virtually since he came ...
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Why do we collect taxes on income from labor?
This question tries to illuminate why it is probably good if within a country/an economy there are more jobs rather than fewer jobs. I would agree, it seems to me that employment is likely to lower ...
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What are taxes for since law forbids printing of money? [closed]
I'm wondering for a long time if people complain about taxes, why they let the government collecting it while it has the authority on supply of money through monetary policy? This looks for me like ...
