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RE: People don't like being told what to do: Soda Tax edition
In the hood, we refer to that as running a pimp game. Here is an interesting fact. The pimp pays the prostitute with her own money. Money that she made and gives to him. He then gives her back her own money. With the government, we do not pay taxes. They take taxes. If they take too much, they give us some of it back (with no interest). And we are ecstatic to get a refund.
lol. Yeah, i was kind of rolling my eyes when people this year (in the US) were complaining about how their return was less than previous years but didn't even look (until prompted to do so) at what their overall tax burdan was. It turned out that most of them were paying less or around the same as they had before, they just didn't notice because no one pays attention to that part of their paychecks.