As a people, we are directly taxed upon, for instance, our income, capital gains, and property, and all of this money, collected from a local, county, State, and Federal perspective, is thus utilized or distributed by these respective governmental agencies. The thing, though, that isn’t really answered is whether or not the taxes, having been collected, are being fairly or appropriately distributed. It would seem that this would be something that should be carefully studied, because quite obviously, those areas that receive more in benefits than they are taxed upon would seem to be in a superior position to those areas that receive less in benefits than they are taxed upon.
The thing about taxes and the distribution of those tax monies is that there are certain communities that, for instance, have a lot of people of retirement age, who thus are benefiting from receiving Social Security and Medicare benefits that far exceed what they are paying into the system at the present time. Yet, that seems to be alright because that is the nature of how these programs were structured. Nevertheless, this appears to reflect a common complaint of the younger generation that their payroll taxes would seem to be going into the pockets of those of the elder generation, making them to believe the distinct possibility that when it comes to their own retirement and need for Medicare that the well might be running dry.
So too, corporations that have a lot of presence and payroll in certain communities, probably aren’t seeing those taxes being return to their particular area of domain, but rather these taxes are being allocated to other areas of interest, that is to say to different communities or organizations, which though making sense at one level, seems to be something in which, those that are contributing these tax dollars would obviously prefer to see that the tax monies so being collected be fairly spent in closer proximity to the communities in which the employees are employed.
Then there is the situation in which the United States is made up of fifty States, in which each State pays taxes to the Federal government of differing amounts, but the allocation of where those taxes goes does not reflect a distribution that is consistent with those payments, thereby signifying that certain States are net beneficiaries of federal taxes; whereas other States are net contributors, which is something that would appear to be unfair.
In sum, because of the sheer amount of taxes being collected, it would behoove politicians and legislators of all types to desire to find out whether they are getting their fair share of that rather sizeable pie, because those that are not, would appear to be cheating their own communities, thereof, in addition to the salient fact, that the tax system, though progressive, should at the end of the day, be fair to all of the people of this nation, as opposed to certain segments of that population as well as communities apparently getting over on the other.