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Taxesare lower now than they havebeenin a generation.Taxesare a lot lowernowthan they wereunder Ronald Reagan.Theyrelower thantheywereunder Bill Clinton . Theyre lower than they were under George Bush, in many cases. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the so-called stimulus act
his Reno stop Thursday, How many people here know that not only did we cut your taxes when I first came into office, but back in December we just cut your taxes again? ... passed in 2009 contained $237 billion in tax cuts for individuals and $51 billion for businesses. This included a payroll tax credit of $116 billion for those earning less than $75,000.Workers paid a little less each week in their payroll taxes, which may be why they didnt notice the extra money like they did when stimulus checks were sent out under President George W. Bush. A New York Times/CBS

. The nonpartisanTax PolicyCenterestimatedthat the cuts saved97 percentof U.S. householdsan averageof $1,179in 2009, andthe programwasextendedin 2010.The budgetcompromisewith Republicans at the end of last year also endedup meaninglowertaxesfor most about80 percentof taxpayers , according to the Tax Policy Center. Are they lower than under Reagan and Clinton, though? The Tax Policy Center last week released an analysis called Historical Federal Income
News poll last fall found that fewer than 10 percent of people knew that taxes had been lowered Tax Rates for a Family of Four.It looked at the average income tax rate based on the median income for a family of four from 1955 through 2010.The average income tax rate under Reagan in 1983 was 11.06 percent. Under Clinton in 1992, it was 9.18 percent. And under Obama in 2010, it was 4.68 percent. The verdict: For most Americans, taxes were lowered through the stimulus package passed in 2009 and extended to 2010, and they were also lowered in the tax compromise between Obama and Republicans. 1955 when the numbers started being tracked through 2007.

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Each space shuttle launch cost American taxpayers between several hundred million dollars and more than a billion dollars, depending on who you believe. The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration pegged the average shuttle launch cost at $45 million. !ut science policy researchers estimated the each shuttle launch cost at being "ar more e#pensive $ as much as three times more. %oger &iel'e (r. and %ad"ord !yerly, o" the )niversity o" *olorado in !oulder, reported that the ).S. government and NASA spent nearly $+ billion

total on the space shuttle program. NASA,s program began in -./- with the launch o" space shuttle Columbia and concluded with the launch o" Atlantis in (uly + --. 0ver those + years, there have been -14 missions. That brings the average shuttle launch cost to about $-.5 billion, according to &iel'e and !yerly, writing in the international wee'ly 2ournal o" science Nature.The researchers said each shuttle launch cost about $-.+ billion "rom the time *olumbia launched and + - . !ut when "actoring in the li"etime costs o" the shuttle program dating bac' to the early -.3 s the average shuttle launch cost rose to about $-.5 billion per "light.The shuttles cost in the billions o" dollars. Endeavour, the orbiter built to replace *hallenger, cost about $-.3 billion, according to NASA.4or a little perspective, here,s what The Associated &ress said5 6America spent more on the space shuttle than the combined cost o" soaring to the moon, creating the atom bomb, and digging the &anama *anal.6

Taxation is theft the state is a system of violence using coercion to gather taxation for the aff plan.

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Coercive societies cause violence they polarize social forces, reduce multidimensional fields, de-emphasize peaceful exchange, and make citizens pay in blood and taxes.

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