If you feel you aren't paying enough in taxes, you are free to write a check to the IRS for any additional amount you feel you owe over what's calculated on your 1040 form.
Huckabee even set up a "Tax Me More Fund" in Arkansas. How'd that work you ask?
From "States Ask For 'Volunteer' Taxes"
...a fund established by Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in November 2001.
Huckabee's "Tax Me More Fund" was a response to legislators who insisted that tax increases or other measures were needed to offset $142 million in budget cuts. To date, it has taken in between $2,000 and $3,000, according to his spokesman, Jim Harris. [emphasis mine]
Holy cow!!! Do you realize that over 15 months (the article was written in April 2003)that works out to a whopping $200.00 a month in extra revenue for the state. Wonder what they did with this windfall?
From Newsmax.com
"Either put up the money, write the check and let us see you're serious, or quit telling me Arkansans want their taxes raised," Huckabee said. "Because, I'm convinced that Arkansans would say today, 'My taxes are high enough.'"
Maybe people really feel they are being taxed enough, or at least they are, just maybe you aren't.
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