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I am not an American. But it would depend on the person's circumstances. How much do they earn? If you earn little then you don't need to file a tax return. How do they earn it? Self employed or employed?Do they travel? You need a passport.How long do they live? - if they die after birth then it is very little. Do they live in the USA?What entitlements do they have?Do they have dialysis? This is federally funded.Are they on medicaid/medicare?.Are they in jail or been charged with a crime?Then how do you count it? Do you count forms filled in by the parents?Then there is the census the Constitution which held every ten years.

That is exactly why China (BeiDou), Europe (Galileo), and Russia (GLONASS) launched their own somewhat compatible constellations. Everyone realized how dependent we have become on GPS. Even India (IRNSS) and Japan (QZSS) have their own systems in case DoD decided to encrypt or turn off GPS.

It all depends on where you live. You will have to go in person to a place where the DoD makes ID cards—and those usually have a months wait for an appointment.You can make an appointment here:RAPIDS Appointment SchedulerIF you have all your documents together (which you never do the first time) they can make it while you wait. They can't do it by mail because they have to take your picture and get your fingerprints.If people are getting excited about this new benefit, I don't think they should be—it is one of the more questionable ones. You cant reserve a seat—you can show up in person at an Air Force base and HOPE for a seat. Half the time the flight is canceled or they don't take any passengers at all. It goes like this, Space Available:Category 1 Emergency leave.Category 2 Environmental Morale Leave (EML)Category 3 Ordinary leave.Category 4 Unaccompanied dependents on EML.Category 5 Permissive Temporary Duty and students.Category 6 Retirees.As a retiree, you are at the bottom of the list for a seat, and even when I was on active duty on leave and a CAT III half the time I ended up buying my own ticket or getting stranded in the middle of nowhere. Retirees can be stuck sitting in terminals for weeks waiting for a ride, and the days of cheap on base rooms are gone now that they have all the base lodging to Holliday Inn—it costs as much like a regular hotel “minus 10%”, and even that availability is space A and you at the bottom of the list—you will probably be paying for a Taxi to ferry you to the nearest Motel 6 in Fargo North Dakota while you wait for a space.There are a lot fewer Airbases that there used to be, and a lot fewer planes flying to ride in. It is high drama every time, and a good deal plane fare will probably end up cheaper in the long run.It is a benefit you will probably never use, and if you do you will probably regret—but if you aren't in a hurry and don't mind sleeping on a park bench, give it a try some time.

First the 1040 is an exercise in sets:Gross Income - A collection and summation of all your income types.Adjustments - A collection of deductions the tax law allow you to deduct before signNowing AGI. (AGI is used as a threshold for another set of deductions).ExemptionsDeductions - A collection of allowed deductions.Taxes - A Collection of Different collected along with Income TaxesCredits - A collection of allowed reductions in tax owed.Net Tax Owed or Refundable - Hopefully Self Explanatory.Now the formulas:[math]Gross Income - Adjustments = Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)[/math][math]AGI - Exemptions - Deductions = Taxable Income[/math][math]Tax Function (Taxable Income ) = Income Tax[/math][math]Taxes - Credits = Net Tax Owed or Refundable[/math]Please Note each set of lines is meant as a means to make collecting and summing the subsidiary information easier.It would probably be much easier to figure out if everyone wanted to pay more taxes instead of less.

Taxes can be viewed as having 4 uses (or purposes) in our (and most) governments:Revenue generation (to pay for public services).Fiscal policy control (e.g., If the government wishes to reduce the money supply in order to reduce the risk of inflation, they can raise interest rates, sell fewer bonds, burn money, or raise taxes. In the last case, this represents excess tax revenue over the actual spending needs of the government).Wealth re-distribution. One argument for this is that the earnings of a country can be perceived as belonging to all of its citizens since the we all have a stake in the resources of the country (natural resources, and intangibles such as culture, good citizenship, civic duties). Without some tax policy complexity, the free market alone does not re-distribute wealth according to this "shared" resources concept. However, this steps into the boundary of Purpose # 4...A way to implement Social Policy (and similar government mandated policies, such as environmental policy, health policy, savings and debt policy, etc.). As Government spending can be use to implement policies (e.g., spending money on public health care, environmental cleanup, education, etc.), it is equivalent to provide tax breaks (income deductions or tax credits) for the private sector to act in certain ways -- e.g., spend money on R&D, pay for their own education or health care, avoid spending money on polluting cars by having a higher sales tax on these cars or offering a credit for trade-ins [ref: Cash for Clunkers]).Uses # 1 & 2 are rather straight-forward, and do not require a complex tax code to implement. Flat income and/or consumption (sales) taxes can easily be manipulated up or down overall for these top 2 uses. Furthermore, there is clarity when these uses are invoked. For spending, we publish a budget. For fiscal policy manipulation, the official economic agency (The Fed) publishes their outlook and agenda.Use # 3 is controversial because there is no Constitutional definition for the appropriate level of wealth re-distribution, and the very concept of wealth re-distribution is considered by some to be inappropriate and unconstitutional. Thus, the goal of wealth re-distribution is pretty much hidden in with the actions and policies of Use #4 (social policy manipulation).Use # 4, however, is where the complexity enters the Taxation system. Policy implementation through taxation (or through spending) occurs via legislation. Legislation (law making) is inherently complex and subject to gross manipulation by special interests during formation and amendments. Legislation is subject to interpretation, is prone to errors (leading to loopholes) and both unintentional or intentional (criminal / fraudulent) avoidance.The record keeping and forms referred to in the question are partially due to the basic formula for calculating taxes (i.e., percentage of income, cost of property, amount of purchase for a sales tax, ...). However, it is the complexity (and associated opportunities for exploitation) of taxation legislation for Use # 4 (Social Policy implementation) that naturally leads to complexity in the reporting requirements for the tax system.

Although the U.S. claims to cling to free market principles, how did its government, through its agriculture department, end up providing food for poor people, something done by charities elsewhere outside of Communist countries?This is the ‘no true scotsman fallacy’- a form of circular argument.No true Scotsman - WikipediaHere, the group definition of ‘free market’ is ‘does not give out food aid’, so excludes any possible counter example.Of course, the real answer is that ‘free market’ is actually a spectrum. Only the total absence of government is a truly free market- even a prohibition on selling smallpox and thermonuclear weapons to North Korea is a limit on a free market!Imposing limits like this does not suddenly make a country communist, because it is not an absolutely free market.As such, a country can have a fairly, but not totally, free market.