Chances are that if you’re employed within the United States, every month you will receive a brand new paycheck for the work you have carried out. Most of the time, it’s baffling to see just how much money has been deducted from those checks, leaving you wishing that a larger number would go towards you, rather than tax. The truth is that the percentage of your wage that is removed from your paycheck each month is taken to pay for various taxes, and these are the same taxes that everyone in the country is expected to pay.