Why do we have taxes?

if you search taxations and google federal reserve fraud, you will have your answer. also google constitution society.

it is mostly to pay for the interest on debt the government incurs that they shouldn't have had to since they can make the money debt free.

taxations main purpose (except service taxes like roads police etc) is wealth transferrance upwards. basically transferring your wealth accumulation to the ones who need it the least the wealthy. it is a fraud that they need the money they can make it themselves, the bankers by the way make the money out of thin air, costs them nearly nothing and they get in return real interest. boy nothing like legal conterfeiting wish I could do that myself.

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that is why the world goes round.. who else pays their president's salary or governmental "funds"

We have taxes to pay for things like war, roads, parks, health care, government employee's salary...etc.

So the government can pay to provide services that we as a community need such as roads, bridges, national and civil defense, among others.

To pay for infrastructure and government programs.

to pay for all the wars the president wants..

so that we can have money to bomb other countries such as Iraq and then spend billions more to rebuild Iraq while people in our own country who make it all possible by paying taxes can barely scrape by, most of them not able to even afford basic health care or medical coverage. Thank Georg W. for all of this.

Really good question do you know that the US was not in debt until it started taxing the citizen's of the US. It is so that the congress and the president and the senators do not have to live of of social security and Medicare they get their full salary and special insurance that they do not pay into for the rest of their lives on our dime so be smart get in to politics

Police force,military,roads,bridges,lights,welf... care,fire dept.,schools,parks,forests,
Just who do you think paid for the school you went to,or the light that stop the other car from ramming you or the policemen that is a deterent so your neighbor won't go into your house uninvited

Local, state, and federal governments levy taxes to provide public services. For example, your police patrols, public libraries, road maintenance, snow removal (in NYC), national defense, etc.

There is no free lunch. Governments raise tax revenues to provide public services to us.

military, medicare, social security, schools............need more?

Only the working class pay taxes.
The rich (over a million dollars a year gets out of paying a dime due to tax loop holes!!!!) Shows on books, but didn`t cost `em!!!!