system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do taxes get taken out of your paycheck, but then you get taxed again when you go to buy food at Burger King?
gpt
There are a lot of different laws written that include a lot of different taxes - where they are applied, and what those funds go towards. So, you might pay 10 cents a gallon in tax on gasoline to fund highway repair, and 6% on soda towards the general state government, and some amount of taxes based on your income to the federal government.