A long standing source of fraud on the fine citizens of the States of the US, - making use of legal terminology (legalese) to confound, confuse & obscufate the fact that the FEDERAL INCOME TAX is a tax on FEDERAL INCOME; - N0T a general tax on natural persons living & working in common occupations.

When you swallow tacks and they won't come out

Income tax is a tax on the income of a person or corporation. In the United States, it is usually collect at both the state and federal level; however, there are a few states which do not currently tax personal income.

The abover definition is completely false, because the federal income tax doesn't discriminate between sources of income from government occupations and private labor. See e.g. 26 U.S.C. § 61. Otherwise, how would the federal government be able to fund its operations?

A person that pretends to be a baller, aka have alot if money, when they get their income tax refund.

1. (n) A douchebag, usually a minority of low income with multiple children, or other people's children that they've claimed as their own for income tax purposes, that receive large sums of money around late January to early April from income tax refunds. They are usually recognizable by the large amounts of money spent on foolish items such as jewelry, rims, clothes, and other personal things other than bills and debt. These "ballers" carry themselves as if they were wealthy for about 1 week out of the year, and go back to being unintelligent degenerate, low life, drains on society for the other 51 weeks of the calendar year. They usually have very low FICA scores, and live in low-income housing. Most of the time taking advantage of and crippling federal programs designed to help poverty stricken or disabled persons, such as Federal Welfare, Food Stamps, and Medicaid Health Insurance.

The more money you make, the higher taxes you pay.

Antonym: flat tax

An income tax that becomes more and more burdensome and/or complex over time.

Progressive income tax

Slang for taking a shit.

The slogan that portrays President Trump as a con man in the White House, whose billionaire image is a sham: an inept businessman and a serial tax avoider, who paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 each—a figure that is far less than what millions of blue-collar Americans are paying—but would deduct $70,000 to take care of his hair.