[speaker001:] um what's our topic
[speaker002:] taxes do we pay too much
[speaker001:] taxes right um
[speaker002:] well do we
[speaker001:] what do you do
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] I guess that I mean it all depends really on what kind of bracket you're in
[speaker002:] my tax bracket is is pretty high up there I pay the I generally pay the maximum tax bracket and uh I think that we're paying too much because I don't have any children
[speaker001:] uh-huh right
[speaker002:] and I pay a lot on property taxes
[speaker001:] um sure
[speaker002:] I don't have any um I don't you know I don't use an awful lot of city services it it you know it's like I have to work
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but uh I have to work all the time just to make enough money to pay the taxes
[speaker001:] um-hum right
[speaker002:] and um you there's so many people who wanted a dib of the federal money
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] or the state money or whatever it is and I just sometimes many times I end up feeling like I'm paying too much in taxes
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] how about you do you pay too much
[speaker001:] uh well no I can't really complain I'm a student um and I I work as a co-op at uh Georgia Tech Research Institute and uh I'm gonna get back most of what I earned I mean most of what I pay in taxes and uh and uh one one of my parents is still claiming me hm
[speaker002:] well when you when you go out into the uh when you go out into the working world it it it changes quickly um you look at your paycheck and you go oh my gosh where did it all go
[speaker001:] um-hum I'm sure
[speaker002:] um what kind of what kind of uh well have you paid a lot of in taxes have you been out working and then gone back to school or are you did you go directly from high school into into college
[speaker001:] I went uh well I did work um just various jobs for some time but I I didn't make enough money to really make too much of a difference right
[speaker002:] to worry about it have you have you been active in in politics trying to concerning this have you like worked on a political action committees or something like that
[speaker001:] no no I haven't
[speaker002:] I uh I haven't done any of that type of work myself um
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but every once in a while when I hear up here at at um in DC area um one of the radio stations has been talking about the the Congress um Congress has added too towards a Members Bank there you know there's a bank that they all bank with and I guess it went defunct recently
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and one of the Congressmen has has written in the last three years almost about a thousand bad checks
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and we we the taxpayers float him a loan for all those all those bad checks no interest no repayment schedule
[speaker001:] really really
[speaker002:] and um it's causing quite a stir up here because we're so close to DC anyway it's really kind of curious to watch this thing occur
[speaker001:] um-hum oh sure
[speaker002:] um I I I think we pay too much and I've I look at my paycheck and I make well let's see they take out in state and federal taxes I think I pay forty two percent
[speaker001:] wow
[speaker002:] forty two cents out of every dollar I make goes to the government and then they charge me sales tax and they charge me gasoline taxes and they charge me all these others and it's just too expensive I can't believe that
[speaker001:] um-hum taxes um-hum
[speaker002:] I I'm just thankful that I don't get all the government that I pay for
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] you know what I mean
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] do you have you used um student loans and things like that that were guaranteed by the government
[speaker001:] no no I haven't uh I uh my father pays for my my schooling my tuition so uh I'm I haven't made use of that
[speaker002:] what are you studying down there
[speaker001:] physics
[speaker002:] physics ooh that sounds like a fun fun field
[speaker001:] everybody says that
[speaker002:] scientific heavy science are you like in the particle particle research or
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] anything like that or is it more um applied physics
[speaker001:] um I haven't I haven't gotten too terribly much into my major yet actually um the the degree I'm getting is physics there's a different one for applied physics so I guess you could call it more straight stuff
[speaker002:] okay well maybe maybe you can figure out how we can stop this inertia that's rolling towards whatever it's rolling toward
[speaker001:] than applied  I doubt about that are are is America I mean are we pretty pretty steep compared to most countries
[speaker002:] actually I don't think we are
[speaker001:] nah I don't think so either
[speaker002:] um like like Europe
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um England
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I know the taxes are a lot higher
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but they do have socialized medicine and things like that
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and um I know that I was reading in the paper I believe yesterday that um they're talking or maybe it was on the radio