Federal taxes in part filter

down to the state level in a complicated dance. State taxes are used for funding what federal can't or doesn't.

So, the taxes should all be viewed as part of the whole. One of the most common dodges used is the idea that this

little 1/4 percent will not hurt anybody financially. And that's true, as far as it goes. What it does not address

is the other hundred or so painless little taxes we pay at the same time. It all adds up to a lot oif our income. We

have to view the burden as a whole to really see how much our government is hurting us with the ever increasing tax

burden.