How many taxes are there in the US?

[ptif219]

Seems like the OP has created more questions than answers

[Captain Obvious]

How many sperm cells are in Lisa Lampanelli's vag?

[iustitia]

All of them. The black ones I mean.

[McCool]

This list oughta get us started:

http://www.weatherimagery.com/blog/h...xes-are-there/

[patrickt]

Don't bother counting because they're adding them faster than you can count and you'll never finish. And, of course, we first have to have the debate about what's a tax and what's a fee and what's a surcharge and what's a voluntary donation and what's a mugging.

[Polecat]

Tax is how our government has grown to the monster it is. And now that we can no longer feed it enough it is getting dangerous.

[Max Rockatansky]

That all depends on what the definition of 'tax' is. It makes a big difference if you count social programs that the state swears are not taxes but insurance.

∞-1= ∞

[Max Rockatansky]

Tax is how our government has grown to the monster it is. And now that we can no longer feed it enough it is getting dangerous.

Dangerous how?

[Peter1469]

Dangerous how?

Deficit spending and uncontrolled debt are dangerous to the long term health of the economy and the USD.

[Max Rockatansky]

Deficit spending and uncontrolled debt are dangerous to the long term health of the economy and the USD.

A bit of an exaggeration, but it's true that deficit spending and spiraling debt harms the long term health of the economy.

It always disturbs me to see warlike terms applied to simple civilian problems like a sagging economy or a Democrat in the White House. Real dangers like a possible war with China in the South China Sea or a terrorist WMD killing thousands, if not millions, of Americans make a sluggish economy pale in comparison.