All sorts of Federal excise taxes too numerous to list were raised as well.
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They also pay federal excise taxes on gasoline, beer, wine, liquor, tires, and cigarettes.
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The remainder untied federal excise taxes is hardly sufficient to fund a massive welfare state.
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This weekend the agency partially shut down operations, including ceasing its collection of federal excise taxes on airline tickets.
Thus were exposed not only the Snake River Potato Growers but the hard-cider producers of New York and Vermont (who were to be allowed to pay lower federal excise taxes) and the sheriffs of Mississippi, who were to be allowed a new tax deduction for business expenses.
Add it up: federal income taxes, Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, myriad federal excise taxes (check out your phone bill), state income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, electricity taxes, water taxes, sewage taxes, airline taxes, hotel occupancy taxes (if you vacation or travel for business), road tolls, vehicle registration fees, driving license fees, marriage license fees and marriage penalties (Washington's version of family values is to tax people for getting married), dog license fees, etc.
All federal taxes (other than excise taxes) should be replaced by the FairTax, which is a national sales tax.
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Following the original provisions of the Constitution, federal taxes consisted of property levies, excise taxes and tariffs.
And if we add in other federal taxes, such as the federal excise tax on gasoline, the numbers come down even further.
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Federal individual and corporate income taxes, and excise taxes, are more than 6 times greater each year than the interest on the national debt.
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State and federal governments certainly knows how to extract revenue through excise taxes from businesses which policy makers feel benefit too handsomely from their products.
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Over that 28-year period, the share of income going to the top 1% more than doubled (from 10.5% to 21.3%) while their average federal tax rate including individual and corporate income taxes, excise taxes, and payroll taxes fell by more than 20% (from 37.3% to 29.5%).
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The constitution gives the federal government the power to tax imports and exports, selling or manufacturing specific commodities (excise taxes) and incomes, and to impose user fees for government services.
But the federal government still wanted another revenue source for the Treasury, which had relied mainly on tariffs and excise taxes for its revenues.
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