Is it "double" taxation when the deli guy making my lunch pays income tax?

[closeupready]

After all, I already paid tax on my own income - it's, like, TOTALLY "double" taxation!!!11 !!1

And though corporations are people, my friend ... umm, scratch that. I'll come back to that point later.

As I was saying...

[Blue Meany]

1. Hmm. Let me try this with the IRS...

I already paid Social Security taxes on that AND also paid state income taxes on it. Furthermore, I pay sales taxes on everything I buy. That' Quadruple taxation!!!! Therefore, I decline to pay my income tax.

[closeupready]

2. QUINtuple, if you live in Yonkers.

Or one of the five NYC boroughs, both municipalities having a local payroll tax.

!!!!!!

[PowerToThePeople]

3. money changing hands @ 25% tax rate

Person # % of original $ % $ Gov has
1 100 0
2 75 25
3 56.25 43.75
4 42.1875 57.8125
5 31.640625 68.359375
6 23.73046875 76.26953125
7 17.7978515625 82.2021484375
8 13.3483886719 86.6516113281
9 10.0112915039 89.9887084961
10 7.5084686279 92.4915313721
11 5.6313514709 94.3686485291
12 4.2235136032 95.7764863968
13 3.1676352024 96.8323647976
14 2.3757264018 97.6242735982
15 1.7817948014 98.2182051986
16 1.336346101 98.663653899
17 1.0022595758 98.9977404242
18 0.7516946818 99.2483053182
19 0.5637710114 99.4362289886
20 0.4228282585 99.5771717415

we all know that no "working class" person onlys pays 25% with sales/gas/all the other taxes. So here is 40% too.

Person # % of original $ % $ Gov has
1 100 0
2 60 40
3 36 64
4 21.6 78.4
5 12.96 87.04
6 7.776 92.224
7 4.6656 95.3344
8 2.79936 97.20064
9 1.679616 98.320384
10 1.0077696 98.9922304
11 0.60466176 99.39533824
12 0.362797056 99.637202944
13 0.2176782336 99.7823217664
14 0.1306069402 99.8693930598
15 0.0783641641 99.9216358359
16 0.0470184985 99.9529815015
17 0.0282110991 99.9717889009
18 0.0169266594 99.9830733406
19 0.0101559957 99.9898440043
20 0.0060935974 99.9939064026

[applegrove]

4. You pay for his wages, that made the food, in the cost of the sandwich.

He pays tax on his wages. You pay sales tax on the sandwich too.

[HopeHoops]

5. It's actually triple taxation...

1) You paid taxes on the income you used to buy the food.

2) You pay sales tax on the food you buy.

3) The deli owner pays tax on the profit he/she makes.