Yeah, the "free ride" is over. I paid over $13,000 in federal taxes this year. Then I paid another $4,500 to the Commonwealth of Virgina.
That doesn't count the 4.5% sales tax I paid on virtually evrything I purchased. Or the federal and state gasoline taxes. And that does not include the 7.65% my employer paid to social security on my behalf.
Who in the world is getting a "free ride?"
