Welcome U.S. citizens and all other people working legally here in the good old U.S.A. Welcome to modern day slavery. OK, so you want to know what i am ranting and raving about? I’m 32,married, home owner, with one kid and hoping for more sounds like the good old American dream don’t it?

I make an average of $18.00 per hour, 40 hours a week, that comes out to $720 before “Uncle Sam” takes his share. Which then leaves me after taxes and deductions around $500 , sounds great doesn’t it? ya, not bad if your not looking at the whole picture. $160 dollars of that goes to taxes every week. Thats $8320 a year. Now lets add on my property taxes, $3400 a year for my 2000 sq foot home, built in 1923, with an acre of land. Nearly $800 in car taxes a year, thanks to Conneticut. Can’t forget that little fire tax they throw in there, if you don’t pay that when your house is burning down, they might not show up with the water to put it out, my fire tax is around $100 a year.

Now here’s the grand total $12,620 a year in taxes. Divide that by 52 weeks a year and you get $242.70, that’s how much Mr. Government really takes out of my pocket, I can’t figure it in on this equation, but do’t forget sales tax, and God forbid you put some money away in a bank, you get taxes on the interest you make. So figure it out for yourself, how much do you really bring home and how much does our government rip out of your pocket?

What effect does this have with our families? Most families have two working spouses, which leads to “latch key kids” for anyone that doesn’t know , that is when your kids have there own key to the house because no one is home, because Mommy and Daddy both have to work. Is this the way the government wants us to raise our children? I could rant and rave about cause and effect for days and days about how the government is killing our society and family values. But i will just end it with this,

” Hello fellow Americans, Your government is raping you! “

PS. ” I feel like a street whore and the government is my pimp! “