Benefits Of Being An American Citizen

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As an American citizen one has many duties. Some of these include taking care of the environment or treating each citizen as your equal. The most important duty as an American citizen is to pay your taxes. Tax payer money is the wind that pushes the sails for this country and without it we would be stranded into a world of confusion and chaos. Tax money pays for our safety, police and firefighters, it also helps those that are under economic stress or those that are deprived of a job to make a steady living, and it even provides a place to live for many, like
Section 8. The amount of tax money people pay depends on their jobs and where they are from for example in New York the state tax can differ from the minimum of 4% to 8.82%. Now, many …show more content…

population don’t pay as much as they should.
Personally, I am at a crossroads between the two.
The topic on whether the rich should pay more on their taxes has been debated for years now and it seems as if it will not stop. The two sides of the argument have taken form of the
Democrats who are on the low­middle class side of things and the Republicans who are on the opposite side of the spectrum and support the wealthy. As stated before, Democrats

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