... well, that's not exactly true !
Since I moved 'way south of the border', the IRS legally allows me to pay ZERO US taxes on my camming income as long as I don't 'visit' the USA for more than 30 days per year ( and don't earn more than $106,000 per year ). Additionally, since my webcam hosts aren't located within my 'adopted' country, they consider my camming income to be 'foreign' income and don't levee a tax either ! Same holds true regarding ZERO US and 'adopted' country taxes on my passive investment income as long as my bank / brokerage accounts aren't US based.
Of course, living down here 'way south of the border' I do have to put up with a few inconveniences ... like the rent price on an entire house being $600 per month, like having to walk an entire 500 feet to reach a Caribbean beach, like having well-heeled vacationing gentlemen invite me for dinner / drinks / cruises / scuba diving, etc.
In the way of general comments on US taxes, for a fact serious dancers and camgirls and other 'top 25% earning' Americans ( > $61k per year income level ) now wind up paying 87% of all US income taxes. see . And for a fact the 'bottom 50% earning Americans ( < $33k per year income level ) generally pay no net income tax. As to Social Security taxes, all 'independent contractor' US dancers and camgirls wind up paying 15.3% of their earnings into a system which offers absolutely no guarantees will still exist by the time they reach the legal age to start getting some of their money back.
I'll refrain from further comment.
Indeed, to be technically accurate ...
- roads and bridges are primarily paid for via dedicated taxes on gasoline / diesel fuel and, where applicable, tolls
- local schools, police, emergency services etc. are primarily paid for via either state income taxes, local sales taxes, or local property taxes
- federal income taxes + Social Security taxes wind up being spent on the following ...
I would add that 'other mandatory' includes budget items like retirement benefits for gov't workers, other gov't benefits programs, etc. - which are considered 'mandatory' since spending cannot be immediately reduced at the discretion of US lawmakers.
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