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How is federal income tax used?

Updated: 9/11/2023
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Taxes are used to pay for all the services and obligations of the government they go to.

Some are earmarked for certain things, (like social security payments), some are put in a general fund, where they are used for many things (paying for the armed services as an example, aid to the needy, maintaining property, etc).

The government does not make money in the sense a business does. it cannot really turn a profit....as it only has expenses it must pay. If it has extra income from taxes (which generally doesn't happen), it would use those funds to lower taxes the next year.

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