If you paid any income taxes your tax rate was reduced, you paid much less for gas, utilities, food, and pretty much every good and service. But you keep lying to yourself.
Paid any income taxes? I pay income tax every year, both before Trump and after him. As I have repeatedly stated, any increase in gas, utilities, food and other goods has little effect on me since I am not a high consumer. Trump's 2017 'Tax Cuts and Jobs Act' is still in effect so that my taxes went up slightly is not relevant and before his tax cuts there were other considerations which greatly effected my tax burden mainly because my wife passed in 2015. Comparing the 2017 tax year with 2018, my income taxes increased, but there were some changes in deductions.
From January 2917 to December 2021, I spent on average per month $364 on utilities; $26 on gas, and $391 on utilities. From January 2021 to November 2024, I spent on average per month $442 on utilities, $43 on gas, and $418 on groceries. I have not cut back on making purchases. In fact it is possible I am consuming more now because the pandemic ended.
