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Enjoy spending my money
TweetPublished: Wed, August 12, 2009 @ 12:00 a.m.
Enjoy spending my money
EDITOR:
I hope all the bankers, investment firms, automakers, auto workers, car dealers, and car buyers enjoy my tax dollars. All these bailouts and cash for cars deals come out of the government’s coffers and the money there came from millions of taxpayers like me that will see nothing in return for our promptly and honestly paying our taxes each year.
There is no such thing as free money. If it comes from the government it’s MY money. So if you are able to belly up to the government pork bowl then thank the millions of Americans that paid their taxes so you could feed at the trough! TOM HALL
Lisbon
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Preaching to the choir buddy. The government has become a cleptocracy. Spend money and give it to others and then they tell you they need more. It's become a joke, we talk about healthcare but our current deficit is about what we spend as a whole on healthcare. It wasn't long ago that our whole budget was what this year's shortfall is.
The Founding Fathers made two glaring omissions when constructing the US Constitution:
1. Ending only the importation of slaves and not slavery.
2. Not restricting the legislatures ability to pillage the public treasury for their own political and personal gain.
We will continue to have theives and liars running the country until we do two things:
1. Electoral Reform including term limits, a poll quiz and no Federal recognition of political parties.
2. A constitutional amendment restricting the power of the purse of the legislature.
Such "change" would require the strong voice of the subjects. Without these reforms, the theft of citizens earnings will increase, the debt will continue to explode and the same barnacles will remain in power over us.
Nonsocialist, good start on thinking of electoral changes, here is my ideas and assesment of issues.
I believe we should have the 17th amendment thrown out so that state representatives pick the senators. This will be a restoration of states rights. I also like the idea of no federal recognition of parties, so people just vote on the person because they have a d or r after their name.
I'm not a fan of the poll quiz but I think it raises a point that people really don't know what they are voting for a lot of the time. I refuse to vote for people or issues which I haven't researched. I also refuse to vote for people who run uncontested.
As far as restricting spending. Today, we don't have the problem of taxation without representation we have the problem of representation without taxation. 40% of people pay no income tax, do you honestly think they care about fiscal responsibility when its not coming out of their wallet?
S4A,
Interesting points. Of course we're both now headed for the internment camps and have been raised a few notches on the government watch list. If you think of it, smuggle in a deck of cards to the "camp".
I agree with you about the taxation mess. What are your thoughts re: the Fair Tax? Everybody pays, less bureacracy (IRS), no punishment for working, you adjust how much tax you pay by how much you can afford to spend, no one falls into debt with their government (no back taxes ever), no need to pay an accountant or spend any time doing taxes, no way of cheating on taxes, and no need to save receipts, etc. It encourages work and thrift.
a simple sales tax?
It is a National sales tax that would replace all Federal income and payroll taxes. Everybody gets a check every year so that everybody remains above the poverty line (a tax rebate in effect).
Imagine prostitutes and drug dealers now paying the same amount of tax as everyone else! It's truly the "Fair" tax!
www.fairtax.org
This is the view of a Nobel prize winning economist on the money invested into the economy by the government. But what does he know?
http://www.comcast.net/articles/finan...
Krugman, are you serious cambridge? Find something from Friedman or someone not as politically biased as Krugman. The man is an "out there" keynesian.
Almost anything is better and fairer than the income tax. I'm in support of what the fairtax tries to do but I'd like to hear more options first. An income tax like the one we have need not be one of those options.
Search....imagine me insulting you, some kid who's never made his way in life with an opinion from a Nobel prize winning economist. I don't know what I could have been thinking.
You should change your username from "Search4Answers" to "I already have all the answers". When ever you finish school and go out into the real world with your "know it all" attitude, that's when the real schooling will begin. Trust me, if you don't work on that you are destined for a life in your parents basement.