levies

Various car related taxes and levies dont even begin to finanace the cost of road building and maintainance.

In both scenarios, additional local tax levies or parent fundraising makes up the educational funding gap.

Your comment comes across to me like someone without kids complaining about school levies simply because they don't have kids.

These might not hold up in court (depends on the state), or Apple might just pay whatever fine the court levies.

For example, if the IRS levied his property to satisfy the tax debt, that would not legally be theft because the IRS is legally entitled to impose levies for that purpose.

The second flaw is that America levies tax on a company’s income no matter where in the world it is earned.

Factoring in condo fees should also factor in reasonable estimates of condo repair levies.

I wonder how long it's going to be until Europe levies an NSA trade tax against US goods and services.

Sea levels will rise and some houses will be lost in most areas on the coast, and cities will have to have levies built.

This, then, naturally levies a tax bracketed by level of consumption.

A government levies taxes and through appropriation spends that money.

I would characterize that more as a freeloader deciding he wasn't being subsidized enough by the taxpayer, then declining to pay the tiny pittance the BLM levies for the privilege of overgrazing the deserts of the West.

We could at least afford to pay the ridiculous "fees" and "levies" to get in.

[I'm assuming you mean "foreign companies in a jurisdiction that levies corporate tax"?] The situation definitely gets more difficult with a non-self-contained economy and multiple tax structures.

It says "The share of tax paid by the top 20% of Americans also changes when such social-insurance levies are included: It drops from more than 80% of income taxes to about 67% of all federal taxes."

It also goes on to say that "The share of tax paid by the top 20% of Americans also changes when such social-insurance levies [Social Security and Medicare] are included: It drops from more than 80% of income taxes to about 67% of all federal taxes."

Levies, stilts, barges are all increasingly economical options.