I think we all hate paying taxes even if we understand their utmost merit and value to us all as a society.
I know that my taxes pay for the roads that I travel every single day to get to work, as well as the bridge I cross to reach my parents’ house across the bay.
Without these taxes, our country would cease to operate overnight. But the truth is that I struggle to survive while seeing a lot of my money disappear before it even reaches me every week. It understandably stings when you’re limiting your food choices daily in the process. I started a bad habit of eating hot dogs daily for at least one meal because you can find eight packs for a dollar these days, even after inflation numbers increased. The hot dogs that I eat are full of nitrates and I have read about nitrates being potentially carcinogenic at high quantities, so it’s probably best that consumption of nitrates be limited if not avoided altogether. However, state and federal taxes are not the only ones that have me worried lately. I fear that I will soon be forced to pay cannabis taxes while still being a medical cannabis patient in my state. When our state legalized recreational recently, it enacted a tax on all recreational cannabis sales, but now the state is discussing a total alteration to our medical cannabis program. Soon we might only have recreational cannabis sales where everyone is paying the recreational cannabis taxes. This hurts a lot of medical cannabis users who were retaining their cards to avoid the cannabis taxes whenever they’re shopping at the local marijuana stores.