Too The Classic Newspaper for Singles. All Rights Reserved. With the budget surpluses as large as they are, there is nothing wrong with giving tax relief to the American people. But it is the individual who pays taxes, not families.
Employees withhold income tax from an individual s pay check.
Payroll taxes are taken from an individual s salary to fund the social security program. When an individual dies, federal estate taxes are taken from his or her estate. Politics, of course. Apparently the leaders of both major political parties are ignoring some basic demographic information as they haggle over who will get tax relief and who will not. There are 80 million American taxpayers who are single or unmarried.