Taxes-How Does The Government Get Paid?

There are a number of different taxes payed by Americans in the United States.

An Income Tax is determined by the amount of money earned by people annually. An Excise Tax is the tax determined by the manufacturing of certain goods and/or services. The Property Tax is the tax for the payer's possesions. A Sales tax is similar to an Excise tax in that it involves goods and services, only difference is that sales tax deals with general goods and services, while excise deals with specific ones.

The government gets paid from the taxes paid by the people of the country.